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The Moment of Racial Sight
Irene Tucker
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Description for The Moment of Racial Sight
Hardcover. 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. The author's investigation begins in the Enlightenment, at the moment when skin first came to be used as primary mark of racial difference. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; HPS; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
"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. Tucker begins her investigation in the Enlightenment, at the moment when ... Read more
"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. Tucker begins her investigation in the Enlightenment, at the moment when ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226922935
SKU
V9780226922935
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About Irene Tucker
Irene Tucker is associate professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of A Probable State: The Novel, the Contract, and the Jews, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for The Moment of Racial Sight
"The Moment of Racial Sight is a work of complex cerebration and theoretical ambition. It seeks nothing short of a fundamental rethinking of the racial construction thesis that has come to assume the character of the very air we breathe in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. An astute, erudite, and often brilliant work, this book makes a huge contribution ... Read more