Sight unseen : whiteness and American visual culture /
Sight Unseen explores how racial identity guides the interpretation of the visual world. Through a nimble analysis of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century paintings, photographs, museums, and early motion pictures, Martin A. Berger illustrates how a shared investment in whiteness invisibly g...
| Основен автор: | Berger, Martin A. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
℗♭2005.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=140643 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Sight unseen. |
| Резюме: |
Sight Unseen explores how racial identity guides the interpretation of the visual world. Through a nimble analysis of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century paintings, photographs, museums, and early motion pictures, Martin A. Berger illustrates how a shared investment in whiteness invisibly guides what European Americans see, what they accept as true, and, ultimately, what legal, social, and economic policies they enact. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xiv, 236 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-225) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780520931916 0520931912 1423727649 9781423727644 1282357727 9781282357723 1598757865 9781598757866 |