Seeing Race in Modern America

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ID19938215
AuthorsMatthew Pratt Guterl (corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages248
Publication date2013-11-04
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueSeeing Race in Modern America (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5149/9781469610696_guterl
OpenAlexW4301513057
Open LibraryOL26028758M
ISBN9781469610696
LanguageEN
Citations received9

This book focuses on how and why we come to see race in very particular ways. What does it mean to see someone as a color? As racially mixed or ethnically ambiguous? What history makes such things possible? Drawing creatively from advertisements, YouTube videos, and everything in between, it redirects our understanding of racial sight away from the dominant categories of color—away from brown and yellow and black and white—and instead insists that we confront the visual practices that make those same categories seem so irrefutably important. Zooming out for the bigger picture, the author illuminates the long history of the practice of seeing—and believing in—race, and reveals that our troublesome faith in the details discerned by the discriminating glance is widespread and very popular. In so doing, he upends the possibility of a postracial society by revealing how deeply race is embedded in our culture, with implications that are often matters of life and death

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Faith · Race (biology) · Sight · Sociology · White (mutation) · Zoom · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Discrimination & Race Relations · Ethnicity · General · History · Psychological aspects · Public opinion · Race awareness · Race discrimination · Social Science · united states

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