The moment of racial sight : a history /

The Moment of Racial Sight overturns the most familiar form of racial analysis in contemporary culture: the idea that race is constructed, that it operates by attaching visible marks of difference to arbitrary meanings and associations. Searching for the history of the constructed racial sign, Irene...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tucker, Irene
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Temas:
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804.
Mill, John Stuart, > 1806-1873.
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882.
Collins, Wilkie, > 1824-1889. > Woman in white.
Wire (Television program)
Woman in white (Collins, Wilkie)
Race awareness > History.
Race in literature.
Conscience de race > Histoire.
Race dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Race awareness.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; One / Kant's Dermatology; or, The Racialization of Skin; Two / Paranoid Imagining: Wilkie Collins, the Rugeley Poisoner, and the Invisibility of Novelistic Ekphrasis; Three / Picturing Utilitarianism: John Stuart Mill and the Invention of a Photographic Public; Four / Observing Selection: Charles Darwin and the Emergence of the Racial Sign; Five / Structures of an Instant: The Wire and the Institution of Race; Notes; Index.

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