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1 online resource (pages .) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The Moment of Racial Sight overturns the most familiar form of racial analysis in contemporary culture: the idea that race is constructed, that it operates by attaching visible marks of difference to arbitrary meanings and associations. Searching for the history of the constructed racial sign, Irene Tucker argues that if people instantly perceive racial differences despite knowing better, then the underlying function of race is to produce this immediate knowledge. Racial perception, then, is not just a mark of acculturation, but a part of how people know one another. </D. |
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; One / Kant's Dermatology; or, The Racialization of Skin; Two / Paranoid Imagining: Wilkie Collins, the Rugeley Poisoner, and the Invisibility of Novelistic Ekphrasis; Three / Picturing Utilitarianism: John Stuart Mill and the Invention of a Photographic Public; Four / Observing Selection: Charles Darwin and the Emergence of the Racial Sign; Five / Structures of an Instant: The Wire and the Institution of Race; Notes; Index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
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Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. |
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Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873.
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Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873. |
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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. |
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Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889. Woman in white.
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Wire (Television program)
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Wire (Television program) |
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Wire (Television program) |
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Woman in white (Collins, Wilkie) |
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Race awareness -- History.
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Race awareness. |
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History. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Tucker, Irene. Moment of racial sight. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013 9780226922935 (DLC) 2012024767 (OCoLC)783150320 |
| ISBN |
9780226922959 (electronic book) |
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0226922952 (electronic book) |
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9781283990936 |
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1283990938 |
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9780226922935 |
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0226922936 |
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