San Antonio College Library

"A ground-breaking collection, On Prejudice is filled with the works of acclaimed writers from all parts of the globe. ... From Slavery to the Holocaust to apartheid to the ethnic wars in Europe and Africa today, On Prejudice exposes and analyzes the concept of prejudice in its many forms. ... Unique in both format and concept, On Prejudice distinguishes itself in both its breadth of inclusion and its presentation of pathways to overcome the evils...

"Writing Prejudices addresses critical attempts to undermine prejudice through education in general, and literary studies in particular. Robert Samuels argues that these attempts often fail because they do not take into account the different forms of prejudice, the role played by homophobia in racism and sexism, the structure of what Lacan calls symbolic castration, and the unconscious foundations of cultural formations. Addressing these deficiencies,...