By strategically placing Rhett's image in this manner, Mitchell simultaneously plays upon racial anxieties and sexual fantasies.

The focus rests on Soho, an embodiment of South African class and racial anxiety and symbol of universal alienation.

This time he has struggled for months to find a way to attack the Mayor, and to take advantage of racial anxieties about him, without being accused of racism.

It stirs racial anxieties not easily answered with reason.

He just wanted to play golf, not deal with the racial anxieties of another society.

And a few minutes later, a riff about the stage lights gives way to a startling evocation of racial anxiety: "Those are my shadows behind me.

It is inevitable then that repressed racial anxiety seeps out of the edges of these texts, returning to defy its containment in liberal discourse.

That is not to say Dinkins never tries, in his elliptical way, to play on the racial anxieties of white audiences.

For example: How realistic are Skinner Box-like programs to spare young blacks racial anxiety?

But the last thing the Democrats want to do is incite the racial anxieties of whites, which is why many party leaders are reluctant to embrace Mr. Jackson.