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Seeing Through Race Hardback - 2012

by W. J. Mitchell

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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. Race is not simply something to be seen but is among the fundamental media through which we experience human otherness. Race also makes racism visible and is thus our best weapon against it.

The power of race becomes most apparent at times when pedagogy fails, the lesson is unclear, and everyone has something to learn. Mitchell identifies three such moments in America's recent racial history. First is the post-Civil Rights moment of theory, in which race and racism have been subject to renewed philosophical inquiry. Second is the moment of blackness, epitomized by the election of Barack Obama and accompanying images of blackness in politics and popular culture. Third is the "Semitic Moment" in Israel-Palestine, where race and racism converge in new forms of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Mitchell brings visual culture, iconology, and media studies to bear on his discussion of these critical turning points in our understanding of the relation between race and racism.

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  • Title Seeing Through Race
  • Author W. J. Mitchell
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  • Publication date 2012-05-29
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
  • ISBN 9780674059818 / 0674059816
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.35 x 5.79 x 0.84 in (21.21 x 14.71 x 2.13 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Sociological
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
  • Category Ethnic Issues
  • Library of Congress subjects Racism, Race
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011043474
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.8

About the author

W.J.T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.
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