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...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2005.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Full text (Emerson users only) Full text (Emmanuel users only) Full text (NECO users only) Full text (MCPHS users only) Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Summary: | 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. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 236 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-225) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520931916 0520931912 1423727649 9781423727644 1282357727 9781282357723 1598757865 9781598757866 |