@inbook{10.3138/j.ctt2ttq9d.6, ISBN = {9781551110714}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt2ttq9d.6}, abstract = {Racism is embedded in political discourses and actions (Knowles 1992, Back and Solomos 1992), in the procedures and practices of public and social policies (Cambridge and Feuchtwang 1990), in national identities (Feuchtwang 1992:129), and in the many forms of collective representation of the “other.” Racism concerns the exclusions, the marginalization, and the social inequities attached to imagined collectivities and identified through the visibility of bodies. This paper explores, through the narratives of a black teacher living in Québec, some of the interconnections between two dimensions of racism: the administrative and the existential.Administrative racism consists of a multifaceted series of}, author = {Caroline Knowles}, booktitle = {Re-Situating Identities: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture}, pages = {47--67}, publisher = {University of Toronto Press}, title = {Racism, Biography, and Psychiatry}, year = {1996} }