JANE FLAX Professor of Political Science at Howard University, USA. She is a psychotherapist in private practice and the author of Thinking Fragments; Disputed Subjects; and The American Dream in Black and White.

Introduction: We Aren't There Yet Shadow at the Heart: Race/Gender Domination and Melancholia Undoing Melancholia Fabricating Subjectivity: Monster's Ball, The Deep End, and Crash as Enactments of Race/Gender in the Contemporary United States Paradise Lost: Domination, Citizenship and the Limits of Political Liberalism Politics for Fallen Angels: Subjectivity, Democratic Citizenship, and Undoing Race/Gender Melancholia Conclusion: Remedies and Constraints

Jane Flax argues that a reciprocal relationship exists between unconscious processes and race/gender domination and that unless we attend to these unconscious processes, no adequate remedy for the malignant consequences of our current race/gender practices and relations can be devised. Flax supports her arguments using a variety of sources.