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Seeing through race /

According to Mitchell, a "color-blind" post-racial world is neither achievable nor desirable. Against claims that race is an outmoded construct, he contends that race is not simply something to be seen but is a fundamental medium through which we experience human otherness. Race also makes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mitchell, W. J. T. (William John Thomas), 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, ©2012.
Colección:W.E.B. Du Bois lectures.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.