White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness 9780262373098, 0262373092

From the author of How to See the World comes a new history of white supremacist ways of seeing—and a strategy for disma

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English Pages 351 Year 2023

White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness
9780262373098, 0262373092

Sight Unseen explores how racial identity guides the interpretation of the visual world. Through a nimble analysis of la

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Focusing on the creation of the concept of Whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and

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This book provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding scope of visual sociology, through a discussion of a broad ran

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In this moving memoir Jane Lazarre, a white Jewish mother, describes her experience being married to an African American

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The acclaimed work that debunks our myths and false assumptions about race in America Maurice Berger grew up hypersensit

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Analyzes the origins of the derogatory phrase "white trash" by documenting the meanings projected on to poor r

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George Lipsitz’s classic book The Possessive Investment in Whiteness argues that public policy and private prejudice wor

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Reads white supremacist narratives in the context of Black and white literature at the turn of the century, with special

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White trash. The phrase conjures up images of dirty rural folk who are poor, ignorant, violent, and incestuous. But wher

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Artificial Intelligence was meant to be the great social equalizer that helps promote fairness by removing human bias fr

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