Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2008. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 123 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-119).

This thesis traces the contours of the Black-White color line in modern America by illuminating how Whites' racialized political behavior varies across local geographic contexts. In a critical reinterpretation of the racial threat hypothesis, I argue that local geography conditions the relationship between Whites' racial orientations and their preferences on policies related to race - but not because Whites are passively threatened in proximity to a Black population. Rather, Whites are active, subjective perceivers of their surroundings who have an interest in maintaining their racial privilege. This conceptual shift not only challenges the assumed neutrality of Whites' vision; it also enables me to identify the range of contextual indicators that Whites might construe as threatening, and the range of White attitudes that are activated as a result. My empirical evidence comes from three case studies. The first two use geocoded survey data to analyze White opinion on welfare spending in 2000, and on affirmative action between 2006 and 2010. The third study draws on in-depth interviews conducted in 2016, exploring an issue related to school desegregation in Louisiana. Each study affirms the core findings of the thesis: Whites' policy preferences are polarized according to racial orientations in settings where race is salient; and a shared White perspective is evident even across polarized attitudes. My findings offer hope, showing that a sign of threat to some Whites may activate racially tolerant behavior in others; as well as reason to restrain our optimism, challenging the assumption that affluent Blacks, unlike the 'undeserving' Black poor, will not be perceived as threatening by Whites. Ultimately, only by recognizing the color line's responsiveness to local geography - and its resilience even as White attitudes liberalize and Black class positions improve - can we understand the line's persistence or the possibility of one day dismantling it.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-08-10T12:02:14Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Pedro Magalhães Seincman.pdf: 1004909 bytes, checksum: 8085c3f73d4e4bf6bf448fdecc0c8e21 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-10T12:02:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pedro Magalhães Seincman.pdf: 1004909 bytes, checksum: 8085c3f73d4e4bf6bf448fdecc0c8e21 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-02 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / The present work investigates de psychoanalytic practice in contexts of social urgency, more specifically in the field of immigration. Based on the construction of two clinical experiences and their articulation with the psychoanalytical concept of transference, we intend to clarify the basis for the construction and management of transferential networks. We explain, on the one hand, how a network without a proper management can stiffen discursive positions and the speeches of those that are intended to care. On the other hand, the construction of a transferential network as well as the analysis of the silencing and of the discourses that take place in the relationship of all those involved in the field, can generate new modalities of social ties. We assume that a transferential network builds forms of resistances to the suffering produced in and by social practices. Thus, the network serves as a device for social intervention and, at the same time, as a discursive support so that the subject is not again forced to break with the bond or submit to the latter in fixed positions. It is in the discursive and political struggle of the network that the clinical case is constructed and that its directions are being produced. We emphasize the importance of taking into account the migrant process of the subject so that a new placement in the bond can occur, thus avoiding the repetition of social humiliation. We will no longer talk about the clinic of the migration, but that of the migration of the clinic, since the assembly and incidence of clinical devices take place in spaces and patterns that move between territories – geographic, social and psychic – and extrapolate the field of migration. The construction of new listening devices and the analytic process are mutually embodied according as new devices produce new discourses that, in turn, also generate new devices. However, without a network of protection, without a transferential network and a discursive network, one can succumb to the temptation of the single discourse that objectifies the subject as well as that of helplessness, thus hurting institutions and professionals / Investigamos a prática psicanalítica em contextos de urgência social, mais especificamente no campo da migração. A partir da construção de dois casos clínicos e da articulação destes com o conceito de transferência, pretendemos elucidar os fundamentos para a construção e o manejo de redes transferenciais. Explicitamos, por um lado, como uma rede sem o devido manejo pode fixar posições discursivas e enrijecer os discursos daqueles que se pretende cuidar. Quando isso ocorre, a rede pode exercer a manutenção ou a repetição da violência de quem se pretende cuidar. Por outro lado, a construção da rede transferencial assim como a análise do silenciamento e dos discursos que se produzem na relação de todos os envolvidos no campo, incluindo os diversos serviços e profissionais, pode constituir novas modalidades de laço social. Defendemos que na rede transferencial se constroem formas de resistência ao sofrimento produzido nas e pelas práticas sociais. Assim, a rede serve como dispositivo de intervenção social e, ao mesmo tempo, como amparo discursivo para que o sujeito não seja novamente obrigado a romper com o laço ou a este submeter-se em posições fixas. É no embate discursivo e político da rede que o caso clínico se constrói e que suas direções vão sendo produzidas. Ressaltamos a importância de se ter em conta o processo migrante do sujeito para que uma nova colocação no laço possa ocorrer de maneira a não repetir a humilhação social. Não mais falamos sobre a clínica da migração, mas buscaremos falar sobre a migração da clínica, pois a montagem e a incidência dos dispositivos clínicos se dão em espaços e em moldes que se deslocam entre territórios – geográficos, sociais e psíquicos – e extrapolam o campo da migração. A construção de novos dispositivos de escuta e o processo analítico se constituem mutuamente à medida que novos dispositivos produzem novos discursos os quais, por sua vez, geram também novos dispositivos. Porém, sem uma rede de amparo, uma rede transferencial ou rede discursiva, pode-se sucumbir tanto à tentação do discurso único que objetifica o sujeito quanto ao desamparo adoecendo, deste modo, instituições e profissionais