LEADER 03756nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910968177103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780674065352 010 $a0674065352 010 $a9780674069930 010 $a0674069935 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674065352 035 $a(CKB)2560000000082837 035 $a(EBL)3301101 035 $a(OCoLC)794670868 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000693068 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11427219 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000693068 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10649273 035 $a(PQKB)11728399 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301101 035 $a(DE-B1597)178202 035 $a(OCoLC)840440474 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674065352 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301101 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10568045 035 $a(Perlego)1147064 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000082837 100 $a20111027d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSeeing through race /$fW. J. T. Mitchell 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass $cHarvard University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 225 0 $aThe W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780674059818 311 08$a0674059816 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tILLUSTRATIONS -- $tPREFACE -- $tPart I. Teachable Moments -- $tLecture 1. THE MOMENT OF THEORY -- $tLecture 2. THE MOMENT OF BLACKNESS -- $tLecture 3. THE SEMITIC MOMENT -- $tPart II. Teachable Objects -- $tChapter 1. GILO'S WALL AND CHRISTO'S GATES -- $tChapter 2. BINATIONAL ALLEGORY -- $tChapter 3. MIGRATION, LAW, AND THE IMAGE -- $tChapter 4. IDOLATRY -- $tCONCLUSION: MONEY AND MASQUERADE -- $tNOTES -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tINDEX 330 $aAccording to W. J. T. Mitchell, a "color-blind" post-racial world is neither achievable nor desirable. Against popular claims that race is an outmoded construct that distracts from more important issues, Mitchell contends that race remains essential to our understanding of social reality. Race is not simply something to be seen but is among the fundamental media through which we experience human otherness. Race also makes racism visible and is thus our best weapon against it.The power of race becomes most apparent at times when pedagogy fails, the lesson is unclear, and everyone has something to learn. Mitchell identifies three such moments in America's recent racial history. First is the post-Civil Rights moment of theory, in which race and racism have been subject to renewed philosophical inquiry. Second is the moment of blackness, epitomized by the election of Barack Obama and accompanying images of blackness in politics and popular culture. Third is the "Semitic Moment" in Israel-Palestine, where race and racism converge in new forms of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Mitchell brings visual culture, iconology, and media studies to bear on his discussion of these critical turning points in our understanding of the relation between race and racism. 410 0$aW.E.B. du Bois Lectures 606 $aIdolatry 606 $aRace$xReligious aspects 606 $aRace 606 $aRacism 615 0$aIdolatry. 615 0$aRace$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aRace. 615 0$aRacism. 676 $a305.8 686 $aLB 31960$2rvk 700 $aMitchell$b W. J. T$g(William John Thomas),$f1942-$01805044 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910968177103321 996 $aSeeing through race$94353401 997 $aUNINA