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Racial Melancholia

Time: March 23, 2023, 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Location: Hybrid: 114 Bird Library / Zoom

David Eng (University of Pennsylvania)

In this public talk hosted by the English department, Eng explores the ideas and research from his coauthored book with psychotherapist Shinhee Han, Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation. Drawing on case studies from the mid-1990s to the present, this work explores the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought, Eng and Han develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration, displacement, diaspora, and assimilation.

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NOTE: Eng presents a second topic, Reparations and the Human, on March 24.

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