Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans

This talk will explore the social and psychic lives of Asian American students and patients that David L. Eng, PhD, and his co-author (Shinhee Han) have encountered over the course of twenty years in the classroom and the clinic. It is based on their recently published book, Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke University Press, 2019).