The Antiracism/Anti-Oppression Library is a resource offered to the NIP community in order to provide a curated collection of materials related to the topics of diversity, otherness, equity, and inclusion. It is meant to supplement the offerings of mainstream psychoanalysis and as a support for those looking to widen the scope of their studies to include voices and perspectives that have largely been silent and invisible. 

The Antiracism/Anti-Oppression Library's reading list was largely curated by The Psychoanalytic Coalition for Social Justice (an inter-institute collective in NYC that advocates for institutional change in psychoanalysis). NIP will continue to augment the original list with DEI readings as they become available. NIP’s Diversity Initiative, initially led by its Candidate Committee on Inclusion and Diversity grew into an institute-wide process of expanding all aspects of psychoanalytic training and treatment, and giving rise to NIP’s Equity Advisory Committee. This committee has spearheaded new programs at all levels of the Institute, leading to a rethinking of psychoanalytic training and practice that seeks to address all aspects of human experience across race, culture, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, age, degrees of able-bodiedness, religion and other aspects of identity.

We are happy to add to this library and will consider all suggestions for inclusion of materials, psychoanalytic or otherwise. Please send proposed contributions to aaydin@nipinst.org with “Antiracism/Anti-Oppression Library” in the subject line.

 

Articles & Books

Ahmed, Sarah (1999). Home and Away: Narratives of Migration and Estrangement. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2, 329-347.

Alexander, Michelle (2010).  The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.  New York: The New Press.

Altman, Neil (1995).  The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture Through a Psychoanalytic Lens.  Hillsdale, NJ: Routledge.

Altman, N. (2000).  Black and White Thinking: A Psychoanalyst Reconsiders. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10, 589-605.

Anderson, Carol (2016). White Rage: The Unspoken Truth about the Racial Divide. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Ayers, William (2008). Handbook of Social Justice in Education. New York: Routledge. 

Babu, Chaya (2017). Why I Left My White Therapist. Retrieved from https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d7pa5j/why-i-left-my-white-therapist

Baldwin, James & Raoul Peck (2016). I Am Not Your Negro. New York: Vintage Books. [Based on the film “I Am Not Your Negro” available on Netflix and YouTube.]

Baldwin, J. (1998). On Being “White”. . . And Other Lies. In David R. Roediger (Ed.), Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means To Be White (pp. 177-180). New York: Schocken Books.

Baldwin, J. (1992). The Fire Next Time. New York: Vintage.

Barranger, Willy (1958). The Ego and the Function of Ideology. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 39, 191-195.

Bayoumi, Moustafa (2009). How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America. New York: Penguin Group.

Beltsiou, Julia (2016). Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Locating Ourselves. New York: Routledge.

Bennett, Janice O. (2006). The Analyst at the Intersection of Multiple Cultures. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 3, 55-63. 

Bermudez, George (2017).  Psychoanalytic Institutes as Second Skin: Bullying and the Challenges of Belonging, Authority and Uncertainty. Other/Wise, The Online Journal of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education, 1, 115-128.  [PDF available for download at https://ifpe.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/george-bermudez.pdf]

Blechner, Mark J. (2009). Polymorphous without perversion. In Sex Changes, pp. 157-168. New York: Routledge.

Bodnar, Susan (2004). Remember Where You Come From: Dissociative Process in Multicultural Individuals. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 14:5, 581-603.

Bonovitz, Christopher (2009). Mixed, and the Negotiation of Racialized Selves: Developing the Capacity for Internal Conflict. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 19, 426–441.

Brickman, Celia (2018). Race in Psychoanalysis: Aboriginal Populations in the Mind. New York: Routledge.

Bushra, Annabella (2009). The Strangeness of Passing: Commentary on Paper by Christopher Bonovitz. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 19, 442–449.

Butler, Judith (1995). Melancholy Gender—Refused Identification. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 5:2, 165-180.

Cheung, Anne Anlin (2001). The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation and Hidden Grief. Oxford: University Press.

Coates, Ta-Nehisi (2015). Between the World and Me. New York: Random House.

Collado-Schwartz, Angel (2012). Decolonization Models for America’s Last Colony: Puerto Rico. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.

Constable, Liz (2011). Material Histories of Transcolonial Loss: Creolizing Psychoanalytic Theories of Melancholia? In Françoise Lionnet & Shu-mei Shih (Eds.), The Creolization of Theory. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Corbett, Ken (2009). Boyhood Femininity, Gender Identity Disorder, Masculine Presuppositions, and the Anxiety of Regulation. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 19:4, 353-370.

Dalal, Farhad (2002). Race, Colour and the Process of Racialization: New Perspectives from Group Psychoanalysis and Sociology. New York: Routledge.

Danto, Elizabeth Ann (2007). Freud’s Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis & Social Justice, 1918-1938. New York: Columbia University Press.

Davis, Angela Y. (2016). Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Chicago: Haymarket Books.

Davis, A.Y. (1981). Women, Race and Class. New York: First Vintage Books.

DeGruy, Joy (2005). Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing.  Portland, OR: Joy DeGruy Publishing.

Delgado, Richard & Jean Stefancic (2017). Critical Race Theory (3rd Edition): An Introduction. New York: New York University Press.

DeWolf, Thomas & Sharon Leslie Morgan (2011). Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade. Boston: Beacon Press.  [See also http://gatheratthetable.net/]

Diangelo, Robin (2011).  White Fragility. International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 3, 54-70. [PDF available for download at http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/download/249/116] 

Diangelo, R. (2018). White Fragility: Why It Is So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Boston: Beacon Press.

Dimen, Muriel (Ed.) (2011). With Culture in Mind (1st Edition). New York: Routledge.

Eagleton, Terry (1991). Ideology: An Introduction. London: Verso.

Eddo-Lodge, Reni (2017). Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race. New York: Bloomsbury.

Eng, David L. & Shinhee Han (2006). Desegregating Love: Transnational Adoption, Racial Reparation, and Racial Transitional Objects. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 7, 141–172.

Eng, D. L., & Han, S. (2000). A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10, 667–700.

Eng, D. L., & Han, S. (2018). Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 

Fanon, Franz (1952). Black Skin, White Masks. New York: Grove Press.

Gaztambide, Daniel J. (2012). Addressing cultural impasses with rupture resolution strategies: A proposal and recommendations. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 43 (3), 183–189.

Gaztambide, D.J. (2015). A Preferential Option for the Repressed: Psychoanalysis Through the Eyes of Liberation Theology. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 25, 700–713.

Gay, Volney (2016). On the Pleasures of Owning Persons: the Hidden Face of American Slavery. New York: International Psychoanalytic Books.

Gherovici, Patricia & Chris Christian (2018). Psychoanalysis in the Barrios. New York: Routledge.

Goldstein, Eric L. (2006). The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race and American Identity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Gonzalez, Juan (2011). Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. New York: Penguin Books.

Goodman, Diane J. (2011). Promoting Diversity and Social Justice. New York: Routledge.

Guralnik, Orna (2016). Sleeping Dogs: Psychoanalysis and the Socio-Political. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 26:6, 655-663.

Guralnik, O. (2014). The Dead Baby. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 24:2, 129-145.

Guralnik, O. & Daphne Simeon (2010). Depersonalization: Standing in the Spaces Between Recognition and Interpellation. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 20, 400–416.

Gurin, Patricia (2013). Dialogue Across Difference: Practice, Theory and Research on Intergroup Dialogue. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Gyasi, Yaa (2016). Homegoing: a Novel. New York: Vintage Books.

Hamer, Forrest M. (2002). Guards at the Gate: Race, Resistance and Psychotherapy. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 50:4, 1219-1237.

Hamer, F.M. (2006). Racism as a Transference State. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 75:1, 197-214.

Harris, Adrienne (2012). The House of Difference, or White Silence. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 13, 197–216.

Harris, A. (1997). Aggression, Envy, and Ambition: Circulating Tensions in Women's Psychic Life. Gender and Psychoanalysis, 2:3, 291-325.

Harris, A. (1991). Gender as Contradiction. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 1:2, 197-224.

Helms, Janet E. (2020). A Race Is a Nice Thing to Have: A Guide to Being a White Person or Understanding the White Persons in Your Life (Third Edition). San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing.

Hill Collins, Patricia & Sirma Bilge (2016). Intersectionality (Key Concepts) 1st Edition. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Hollander, Nancy Caro (2010). Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas. New York: Routledge.

Hollander, N. C. (2010). Anti-Muslim Prejudice and the Psychic Use of the Ethnic Other. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 7:1, 73-84.

Holmes, Dorothy E. (2016). Come Hither American Psychoanalysis: Our Complex Multicultural America Needs What We Have to Offer. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 64 (3), 569-586.

Irving, Debby (2014). Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race (1st Edition). Cambridge, MA: Elephant Room Press.

Jones, Annie L. (2015). A Psychoanalytic Reader’s Commentary: On Erasure and Negation as a Barrier to the Future. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 25, 719–724.

Kang, Hye-Kyung & Peggy O’Neill (2018). Teaching Note—Constructing Critical Conversations: A Model for Facilitating Classroom Dialogue for Critical Learning. Journal of Social Work Education, 54:1, 187-193

Kendi, Ibram X. (2016) Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. New York: Nation Books.

Keval, Narendra (2016). Racist States of Mind. London: Karnac.

Kanna, Ranjanna (2003). Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism. Durham: Duke University Press.

Kinnally, Cara Anne (2019). Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts: Transnational Collaboration in Nineteenth-Century Greater Mexico. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press.

Lareau, Annette (2003). Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

Landreman, Lisa (2013). The Art of Effective Facilitation: Reflections from Social Justice Educators. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.

Layton, Lynne. (2006). Racial Identities, Racial Enactments, and Normative Unconscious Processes. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 75, 237–269.

Layton, L., Nancy Hollander, & Susan Gutwill (Eds.) (2006). Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting. New York: Routledge.

Leary, Kimberlynn (1997). Race in Psychoanalytic Space. Gender and Psychoanalysis, 2, 157–172.

Leary, K. (2000). Racial Enactments in Dynamic Treatment. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10, 639–653.

Leary, K. (2007). Racial Insult and Repair. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 17, 539–549.

Leary, K. (1997). Race, Self-Disclosure, And “Forbidden Talk”: Race And Ethnicity In Contemporary Clinical Practice. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 66, 163–189.

Leider, Robert J. (1983). Analytic Neutrality — A Historical Review. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 3:4, 665-674.

Lorde, Audre (2007). Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Toronto: Crossing Press. 

Lowe, Frank (2014). Thinking Space: Promoting Thinking About Race, Culture, and Diversity in Psychotherapy and Beyond. New York: Routledge.

Malamed, Charla Ruby (2022). Does Your Institute Have An Anti-Racism Commitment? Interrogating Anti-Racism Commitments in Psychoanalytic Institutes. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 27:375–385. [Available online at https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1057/s41282-022-00285-1?sharing_token=LJpv4BkriFubM9C4i2aFMFxOt48VBPO10Uv7D6sAgHuU0oO8kQiMkQahdciMFHNTlVxP1tLHl8GXrh8kxdq4XEsNi1cukPUAcNzgAB0NJBqj7kuJgiCDf2H25NEQ3wCM4dn418YyCftsrRKUfEAQliJ2LrgkPOREasZS1cv-Vik=]

Malamed, C. R. (2022). A Safe Space to Play Dangerously: Contextualizing Gender Play in Therapy. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32:2, 198-206. [Available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/A8TWRK4VMIVFJEUMYIR4/full?target=10.1080/10481885.2022.2033555]

Malamed, C. R. (2021). A White Person Problem: Conducting White/White Treatment with a Social Justice Lens. Psychoanalytic Social Work, 28:2, 149–172. [Available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/INGGMDBDN3BKBNDTSPVU/full?target=10.1080/15228878.2021.1877752]

Martinez, Elizabeth (2017). De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century.  Brooklyn: Verso Press.

Mbembe, Achille (2017). Critique of Black Reason. Durham: Duke University Press.

Moss, Donald (2001). On Hating in the First Person Plural: Thinking Psychoanalytically about Racism, Homophobia, and Misogyny. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 49, 1315-1334.

Nagata, Donna K. & Yuzuru J. Takeshita (1998). Coping and Resilience Across Generations: Japanese Americans and the World War II Internment. Psychoanalytic Review, 85, 587–613.

Nash, Jennifer C. (2019) Black Feminism Reimagined After Intersectionality. Durham: Duke University Press.

Oliver, Kelly (2004). The Colonization of Psychic Space. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Oluo, Ijeoma (2017). So You Want to Talk About Race. New York: Hatchette Book Group. 

Ortiz, Paul (2018). An African American and Latinx History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Press.

Pallares, Ana (2014). Family Activism: Immigrant Struggles and Politics of Non-citizenship. Rutgers University Press.

Pinderhughes, Elaine (1989).  Understanding Race, Ethnicity & Power. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Portnoy, Ana (2017).  Irma and Maria: Shedding Light on Puerto Rico’s Colonial Reality.  Retrieved from https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/28/irma-and-maria-shedding-light-on-puerto-ricos-colonial-reality/ 

Powell, John A. (2012).  Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Quiñones Rosado, Raúl (2010). Consciousness in Action: Towards an Integral Psychology of Transformation and Liberation.  Lulu.com

Raj, P. Prayer Elmo (2014). Postcolonial Literature, Hybridity and Culture. International Journal of Humanities & Social Science Studies, 1:2, 125-128.

Rankine, Claudia (2014).  Citizen: An American Lyric. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press.

Rankine, C. (2019). The White Card: A Play. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press.

Rankine, C., Beth Loffreda, & Max King Cap. (2015). The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. Hudson, NY: Fence Books.

Rozmarin, Eyal (2009). I Am Yourself: Subjectivity and the Collective. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 19:5, 604-616.

Sattouf, Riad (2018). The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1985-1987: A Graphic Memoir. London: Hodder & Stoughton.

Smith, Lillian (1949). Killers of the Dream. New York: W.W. Norton.

Stovall, Natasha (2019).  Whiteness on the Couch. Retrieved from https://longreads.com/2019/08/12/whiteness-on-the-couch/ 

Suchet, Melanie (2004). A Relational Encounter with Race. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 14, 423–438.

Suchet, M. (2007). Unraveling Whiteness. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 17, 867–886.

Suchet, M. (2010). Face to Face. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 20:2, 158-171.

Swartz, Sally (2019). Ruthless Winnicott. New York: Routledge.

Tatum, Beverly Daniel (1997). Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race. New York: Hachette Book Group.

Taylor, Keenanga-Yamahtta (Ed.) (2017). How We Got Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. Chicago: Haymarket Books.

Thomas, Angie (2017). The Hate U Give. New York: Harper Collins. 

Thompson, Cheryl L. (1995). Self-Definition by Opposition: A Consequence of Minority Status. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 12, 533–545.

Tubert-Oklander, Juan (2006). The Individual, the Group and Society: Their Psychoanalytic Inquiry. International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 15:3, 146-150.

Vargas, Jose Antonio (2018). Dear America, Notes of an Undocumented Citizen. New York: Harper Collins.

Vaughans, Kirkland C., & Warren Spielberg (Eds.) (2014). The Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

Vasquez, Carmen Inoa and Rosa Maria Gil (1996). The Maria Paradox: How Latinas Can Merge Old World Traditions with New World Self-esteem. Audible Studios.

Vazquez, Luis A. (2014). Integration of Multicultural and Psychoanalytic Concepts.  Psychoanalytic Psychology, 31, 435–448.

Wamba, Philippe (1998). A Middle Passage. In C.C. O’Hearn (Ed.), Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural (pp. 150-169). New York: Pantheon Books.

Ward, Jesmyn (2016). The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Watkins, Mary & Helene Shulman (2008).  Towards Psychologies of Liberation (Critical Theory and Practice in Psychology and the Human Sciences). New York: Palgrave.

White, Cleonie. (2004). Culture, Influence, and the “I-ness” of Me: Commentary on Papers by Susan Bodnar, Gary B. Walls, and Steven Botticelli. Walls and Steven Botticelli. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 14, 653–691.

White, C. (2007). Fertile Ground at the Edge of Difference: Self, Other, and Potential Space: Commentary on Paper by Gillian Straker. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 17, 171–187.

White, C. (2015). Strangers in Paradise: Trevor, Marley, and Me: Reggae Music and the Foreigner Other. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 25, 176–193.

White, Kathleen P. (2002). Surviving Hating and Being Hated: Some Personal Thoughts About Racism from a Psychoanalytic Perspective. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 38, 401–422.

Winnicott, Donald W. (1949). Hate in the Countertransference. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 30, 69-74.

Yi, Kris Y. (2014). From No Name Woman to Birth of Integrated Identity: Trauma-Based Cultural Dissociation in Immigrant Women and Creative Integration. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 24, 37–45.

Yi, K. Y. (1998). Transference and Race: An Intersubjective Conceptualization. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 15:2, 245-261.

Ying, Yu-Wen, & Peter Allen Lee (2006). The Contribution of Ethnic and American Identities to the Migrant’s Self-esteem: An Empirical Investigation. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 3, 39–50.

Yoshino, Kenji (2007). Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights (Reprint edition). New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks.


 

FILM & VIDEO

Black Analysts Speak: http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=pepgrantvs.001.0001a

The Danger of a Single Story: https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?language=en. Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie shares her personal perspectives on how single stories distort our perceptions of others and discusses the role of power in what stories get told and how they are told

Moving Beyond Violence: http://www.movingbeyondviolence.org/. Moving Beyond Violence is a pedagogical website and documentary 10-part video workshop series, born out of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Why We Need Gender Neutral Bathrooms: https://www.ted.com/talks/ivan_coyote_why_we_need_gender_neutral_bathrooms

 
 

SYLLABI & TOOLKITS

Anti-Racist Alliance’s bibliography (webpage): http://www.antiracistalliance.com/Bibliography-Resources.html

Inter-Institute Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Bibliography (PDF) compiled by Rossanna Echegoyén 

National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network’s “Radical Syllabus for QTPOC Mental Health Practitioners” (webpage): https://www.nqttcn.com/practitionerdevelopment 

“Race,” Ethnicity, Culture and Psychoanalysis Selected Bibliography (PDF) by Amy Lieberman, LCSW 

Racial Equity Tools (website): https://www.racialequitytools.org/home

“Self and Other: Race, Culture and Psychoanalysis” syllabus (PDF) by Sarah Hill and Christopher Jones