Phil Cohen Works

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Psychoanalysis and Racism – Reading the Other Scene

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I was asked by John Solomos to write a chapter for his ‘Blackwell Companion on Race and Ethnic Studies’ giving a critical survey of psychoanalytic theories  of race and racism. These theories were viewed with great suspicion, some of it justified, by the Anti Racist Left, although much of their dismissive attitude  was based on ignorance or misunderstanding. I wrote an essay … [Read more...] about Psychoanalysis and Racism – Reading the Other Scene

Yesterday’s Words, Tomorrow’s World: Issues in Transracial Adoption

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Transracial adoption was one of the most fraught and contest areas of social welfare policy in the 1990’s in Britain. In this essay commissioned for a book about  adoption policy I survey the history of the debate  about adoption  and about race, focussing on their critical points of intersection. The discussion deconstructs essentialised notions of ethnic identity and the … [Read more...] about Yesterday’s Words, Tomorrow’s World: Issues in Transracial Adoption

Methods in Dialogue / Finding the Way Home

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This video illustrates some of the innovative methods used in a research project which explored young people’s sense of place and identity  in two deprived neighbourhoods in London’s Docklands. The aim was to provide a  space of representation in which the young people felt free to express their fears and anxieties, whether through artwork, or the  stories they … [Read more...] about Methods in Dialogue / Finding the Way Home

The Way We Were Then

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The Way We Were : 144 Piccadilly  squat A few years ago a TV company approached me to see if I would be interviewed for a programme they wanted to make about the Street Commune squat at 144 Piccadilly. It was to be broadcast as part of a series entitled ‘The Way We Were’ in which people who had been directly involved in recent historical events were asked to talk about … [Read more...] about The Way We Were Then