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Engaging Chanda Griffin’s exploration of racial dissociation, multiplicity, and internalized whiteness-anti-Blackness, this paper examines how racialized subjectivity is organized within the hegemonic white-Black binary that structures Anglo-American culture. Drawing on relational psychoanalysis, queer theory, and decolonial thought, the author considers Ricanness as a precarious positionality situated between proximity to whiteness and vulnerability to anti-Blackness. Through autobiographical reverie and clinical material, the paper explores how dissociated racial identifications emerge through internalized white supremacist ideology and adhesive identifications with whiteness as a site of legitimacy, respectability, and possibility. Queering racial identity is advanced as a psychoanalytic stance capable of containing dissociated racial experience by resisting normative binaries and sustaining multiplicity, contradiction, and uncertainty.