Seeing Through Race / W. J. T. Mitchell.
Mitchell, W. J. T. , author.
2012
HT1521 .M57 2012eb
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Title Seeing Through Race / W. J. T. Mitchell.
Author Mitchell, W. J. T. , author.
ISBN 9780674065352
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674065352
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (240 p.) : 16 halftones, 3 line illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674065352 doi
Call Number HT1521 .M57 2012eb
Alternate Call Number MS 3530
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.
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Series The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
In E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012
E-BOOK PACKAGE HISTORY; POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY 2012
E-BOOK PAKET GESCHICHTE, POLITIKWISS., SOZIOLOGIE 2012
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
Part I. Teachable Moments
Lecture 1. THE MOMENT OF THEORY
Lecture 2. THE MOMENT OF BLACKNESS
Lecture 3. THE SEMITIC MOMENT
Part II. Teachable Objects
Chapter 1. GILO'S WALL AND CHRISTO'S GATES
Chapter 2. BINATIONAL ALLEGORY
Chapter 3. MIGRATION, LAW, AND THE IMAGE
Chapter 4. IDOLATRY
CONCLUSION: MONEY AND MASQUERADE
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX

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