{"product_id":"seeing-race-in-modern-america-9781469626512","title":"Seeing Race in Modern America","description":"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 and black and white -- and instead insists that we confront the visual practices that make those same categories seem so irrefutably important.\u003cbr\u003eZooming out for the bigger picture, Guterl illuminates the long history of the practice of seeing -- and believing in -- race, and reveals that our troublesome faith in the details discerned by the discriminating glance is widespread and very popular. In so doing, he upends the possibility of a postracial society by revealing how deeply race is embedded in our culture, with implications that are often matters of life and death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Pratt Guterl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.16w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469626512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Pratt Guterl is professor of Africana studies and American studies at Brown University and is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Color of Race in America, 1900-1940\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation\u003c\/i\u003e, and the co-editor, with James T. Campbell and Robert G. Lee, of \u003ci\u003eRace, Nation, and Empire in American History\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45115618525299,"sku":"9781469626512","price":67.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_7f4d5216-5bf1-49fa-8591-d18734b193bb.jpg?v=1781787496","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/seeing-race-in-modern-america-9781469626512","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}