Seeing Through Race / / W. J. T. Mitchell.

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....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 16 halftones, 3 line illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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