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Black bodies, white gazes : the continuing significance of race / George Yancy.
LIBRA E185 .Y32 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yancy, George
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans.
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 265 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2008]
- Contents:
- 1 The Elevator Effect: Black Bodies/White Bodies 1
- 2 Whiteness: "Unseen" Things Seen 33
- 3 The Return of the Black Body: Seven Vignettes 65
- 4 The Agential Black Body: Resisting the Black Imago in the White Imaginary 109
- 5 Exposing the Serious World of Whiteness through Frederick Douglass's Autobiographical Reflections 141
- 6 Desiring Bluest Eyes, Desiring Whiteness: The Black Body as Torn Asunder 183
- 7 Whiteness as Ambush and the Transformative Power of Vigilance 227.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780742552975
- 0742552977
- 9780742552982
- 0742552985
- OCLC:
- 233813711
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