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11%OFFOsagie Obasogie - Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind - 9780804772792 - V9780804772792
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Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind

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Description for Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: LA; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
Colorblindness has become an integral part of the national conversation on race in America. Given the assumptions behind this influential metaphor—that being blind to race will lead to racial equality—it's curious that, until now, we have not considered if or how the blind "see" race. Most sighted people assume that the answer is obvious: they don't, and are therefore incapable of racial bias—an example that the sighted community should presumably follow. In Blinded by Sight,Osagie K. Obasogie shares a startling observation made during discussions with people from all walks of life who have been blind since birth: even the blind ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
287
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804772792
SKU
V9780804772792
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About Osagie Obasogie
Osagie K. Obasogie is Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law with a joint appointment at UCSF Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for Genetics and Society. Named one of 12 Emerging Scholars in Academia under 40 by Diverse Issues in Higher Education, his research ... Read more

Reviews for Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind
"In this insightful book, Obasogie, University of California (Hastings) law professor, assesses interviews with 131 blind and sighted Americans on how they understand 'race' . . . The author fruitfully examines the data's implications for how 'race' is more than visual, as a socially constitutive process, and how this affects naïve 'colorblind' arguments in popular commentaries and judges' reasoning . ... Read more

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