Abstract
ABSTRACT Utilising a socio-psychological understanding of the concept of internalised racism (IR), this article examines the racialised romantic/sexual preferences for White Western men amongst Asian Australians subjects. By psychoanalytically analysing the notion of White nation-building and its inherent gendered dynamics, the article examines how the White patriarchal national will aims to secure its dominance over national space. In doing so, it necessarily engages in two simultaneous strategic plays of power. First, it must secure access to the racialised female element – a symbolic penetration of the motherland’s other. Second, as corollary and catalyst, the national will engenders an emasculation of the racialised male element – a symbolic castration of the phallic signifier of the counter-will. By examining how both these dynamics are internalised by racialised subjects, this article demonstrates how IR ultimately works to fracture a racialised community from within.
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