Nicholas Mirzoeff

White Sight

Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness

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Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 802g
• ISBN-13: 9780262047678
• ISBN-10: 0262047675
• Artikelnr.: 64172211

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. His many books include the best-selling How to See the World and The Right to Look, and his writing has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, Hyperallergic, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledged (vii)
Introduction: The Strike Against Whiteness (1)
Part I: White Sight in the World of Atlantic Slavery
1 The City, Ship, and Plantation (29)
2 The World of Statues in the Americas (59)
3 The Natural History of White Supremacy (93)
Part II: Imperial Visions, Anticolonial Ways of Seeing
4 The Imperial Screen (123)
5 The Anticolonial Way of Seeing (149)
6 The Cultural Unconscious and the Dispossessed (177)
Part III: The Crisis of Whiteness
7 The Strike Against Statues (197)
8 The General Crisis of Whiteness (227)
Acknowledgments (265)
Notes (267)
Bibliography (291)
Index (325)