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  • Guterl, Matthew Pratt, 1970-
     
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  • Race discrimination -- United States.
     
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  • Race discrimination -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
     
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  • Race awareness -- United States.
     
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  • Ethnicity -- United States -- Public opinion.
     
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    Seeing race in modern America / Matthew Pratt Guterl.
    by Guterl, Matthew Pratt, 1970-
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    Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, c2013.
    Subjects
  • Race discrimination -- United States.
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  • Race discrimination -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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  • Race awareness -- United States.
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  • Ethnicity -- United States -- Public opinion.
  • ISBN: 
    9781469610689 (hardback)
    146961068X (hardback)
    Description: 
    xii, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
    Contents: 
    pt. 1. Close-ups: the devil in the details : Profiles ; Silhouettes ; Bought and sold -- pt. 2. Group portraits : Looking for contrast ; The domestic ensemble ; Platoon harmonics -- pt. 3. Multiple exposures: the evidence of things not easily seen : Hybridity ; Masquerade ; Passing ; Ambiguity.
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    "In this fiercely urgent book, Matthew Pratt Guterl 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, Guterl 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"--
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