White Sight
White Sight From the author of How to See the World comes a new history of white supremacist ways of seeing--and a strategy for dismantling them.White supremacy is not only perpetuated by laws and…
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White Sight
From the author of How to See the World comes a new history of white supremacist ways of seeing--and a strategy for dismantling them.White supremacy is not only perpetuated by laws and police but also by visual culture and distinctive ways of seeing. By understanding that it was not always a common practice, we can devise better ways to dismantle it. Nicholas Mirzoeff argues that this form of "white sight" has a history.
Spanning centuries across this wide-ranging text, Mirzoeff connects Renaissance innovations--from the invention of perspective and the erection of Apollo statues as monuments to (white) beauty and power to the rise of racial capitalism dependent on slave labor--with the ever-expanding surveillance technologies of the twenty-first century to show that white sight creates an oppressively racializing world, in which subjects who do not appear as white