Seeing Race in Modern America

by Matthew Pratt Guterl

Book Overview

In this fiercely urgent book, Matthew Pratt Guterl focuses on how and why we come to see race in very particular ways. What does it mean to see someone as a color? As racially mixed or ethnically ambiguous? What history makes such things possible? Drawing creatively from advertisements, YouTube videos, and everything in between, Guterl redirects our understanding of racial sight away from the dominant categories of color--away from brown and yellow...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146961068X
• ISBN13: 9781469610689
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"