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Sight unseen : whiteness and American visual culture
Author
Title
Sight unseen : whiteness and American visual culture / Martin A. Berger.
ISBN
0520244591 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
Physical Description
xiv, 236 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN 2021 1801: Numberline on title page verso indicates first printing: "14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1". Autograph of Diana Linden. From the Claudia Rankine Collection of The Racial Imaginary Institute.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 10, 2005
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-225) and index.
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: white like me
Genre painting and the foundations of modern race
Landscape photography and the white gaze
Museum architecture and the imperialism of whiteness
Silent cinema and the gradations of whiteness
Epilogue: the triumph of racialized thought
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
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Claudia Rankine Collection of The Racial Imaginary Institute (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
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