Seeing through race [electronic resource] / W. J. T. Mitchell.
2012
HT1521 .M57 2012eb
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Seeing through race [electronic resource] / W. J. T. Mitchell.
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9780674065352 electronic book
0674059816
9780674059818
0674059816
9780674059818
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, c2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 231 p.) : ill.
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HT1521 .M57 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.8
Summary
"According to W.J.T. Mitchell, a "color-blind" post-racial world is neither achievable nor desirable. Against popular claims that race is an outmoded construct that distracts from more important issues, Mitchell contends that race remains essential to our understanding of social reality. Race is not simply something to be seen but is among the fundamental media through which we experience human otherness. Race also makes racism visible and is thus our best weapon against it. The power of race becomes most apparent at times when pedagogy fails, the lesson is unclear, and everyone has something to learn. Mitchell identifies three such moments in America's recent racial history. First is the post-Civil Rights moment of theory, in which race and racism have been subject to renewed philosophical inquiry. Second is the moment of blackness, epitomized by the election of Barack Obama and accompanying images of blackness in politics and popular culture. Third is the "Semitic Moment" in Israel-Palestine, where race and racism converge in new forms of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Mitchell brings visual culture, iconology, and media studies to bear on his discussion of these critical turning points in our understanding of the relation between race and racism"--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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W.E.B. Du Bois lectures.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Teachable moments
Lecture 1: The moment of theory
Lecture 2: The moment of blackness
Lecture 3: The Semitic moment
Teachable objects
Gilo's wall and Christo's gates
Binational theory
Migration, law, and the image
Idolatry : Nietzsche, Blake, Poussin
Conclusion: money and masquerade
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index.
Teachable moments
Lecture 1: The moment of theory
Lecture 2: The moment of blackness
Lecture 3: The Semitic moment
Teachable objects
Gilo's wall and Christo's gates
Binational theory
Migration, law, and the image
Idolatry : Nietzsche, Blake, Poussin
Conclusion: money and masquerade
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index.