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White sight : visual politics and practices of whiteness  Cover Image E-book E-book

White sight : visual politics and practices of whiteness / Nicholas Mirzoeff.

Summary:

"How whiteness has been constructed, naturalized, and wielded; and how we can unmake it. By a renowned visual culture scholar; grounded in visual and cultural critique, feminism, and the Black radical tradition"-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9780262373098
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (309 pages)
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2023.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction : The strike against whiteness -- Part I : White sight in the world of Atlantic slavery -- The city, ship, and plantation -- The world of statues in the Americas -- The natural history of white supremacy -- Part II : Imperial visions, anticolonial ways of seeing -- The imperial screen -- The anticolonial way of seeing -- The cultural unconscious and the dispossessed -- Part III : The crisis of whiteness -- The strike against statues -- The general crisis of whiteness.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Subject: White people > Race identity.
White nationalism.
Slavery.
Visual communication.
Genre: Electronic books.


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