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Author Guterl, Matthew Pratt, 1970- author.

Title Seeing race in modern America / Matthew Pratt Guterl
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Close-ups : The devil in the details -- Group portraits : Looking for contrast -- Multiple exposures : The evidence of things not easily seen
Summary This book focuses on how and why we come to see race in very particular ways. What does it mean to see someone as a color? As racially mixed or ethnically ambiguous? What history makes such things possible? Drawing creatively from advertisements, YouTube videos, and everything in between, the author redirects our understanding of racial sight away from the dominant categories of color - away from brown and yellow and black and white - and instead insists that we confront the visual practices that make those same categories seem so irrefutably important. -- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index
Notes Text in English
Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed August 4, 2021)
Subject Race discrimination -- United States.
Race discrimination -- United States -- Psychological aspects
Race awareness -- United States
Ethnicity -- United States -- Public opinion
HISTORY -- United States -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Ethnicity -- Public opinion
Race awareness
Race discrimination
Race discrimination -- Psychological aspects
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013015590
ISBN 9781469612522
1469612526
1469610698
9781469610696