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Sight unseen : whiteness and American visual culture /
Sight Unseen explores how racial identity guides the interpretation of the visual world. Through a nimble analysis of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century paintings, photographs, museums, and early motion pictures, Martin A. Berger illustrates how a shared investment in whiteness invisibly g...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Sight Unseen explores how racial identity guides the interpretation of the visual world. Through a nimble analysis of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century paintings, photographs, museums, and early motion pictures, Martin A. Berger illustrates how a shared investment in whiteness invisibly guides what European Americans see, what they accept as true, and, ultimately, what legal, social, and economic policies they enact. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 236 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-225) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520931916 0520931912 1423727649 9781423727644 1282357727 9781282357723 1598757865 9781598757866 |