ISBN:
146961068X
,
1469612526
,
9781469610689
,
9781469612522
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xii, 224 pages)
,
illustrations (some color)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Guterl, Matthew Pratt, 1970- Seeing race in modern America
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
HISTORY / United States / General
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
;
Ethnicity / Public opinion
;
Race awareness
;
Race discrimination
;
Race discrimination / Psychological aspects
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Psychologie
;
Race discrimination
;
Race discrimination Psychological aspects
;
Race awareness
;
Ethnicity Public opinion
;
Rasse
;
Ethnizität
;
Rassendiskriminierung
;
Wahrnehmung
;
USA
;
USA
;
USA
;
Rassendiskriminierung
;
USA
;
Ethnizität
;
Wahrnehmung
;
USA
;
Rasse
Description / Table of Contents:
"In this fiercely urgent book, Matthew Pratt Guterl 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, Guterl 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, Guterl 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"--
Description / Table of Contents:
"In this fiercely urgent book, Matthew Pratt Guterl 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, Guterl 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"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Part I. Close-ups: The devil in the details -- part II. Group portraits: Looking for contrast -- part III. Multiple exposures. The evidence of things not easily seen
Note:
Description based on print version record
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