Seeing Race in Modern America

Name: Seeing Race in Modern America
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ISBN: 9781469610689

ISBN-10: 146961068X

ISBN-13: 9781469610689

Edition: 2013

Authors: Matthew Pratt Guterl

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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…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/4/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Matthew Pratt Guterl is Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies at Brown University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Close-Ups the Devil in the Details



Profiles



Silhouettes



Bought and Sold



Group Portraits Looking for Contrast



The Domestic Ensemble



Platoon Harmonics



Multiple Exposures the Evidence of Things Not Easily Seen



Hybridity



Masquerade



Passing



Ambiguity


Coda


Notes


Index