Description
In this work of critical theory, Black studies, and visual culture studies, the author reads race as a theory of the image. By placing emphasis on the surface of the visual as the repository of its meaning, race presents the most enduring ontological approach to what images are, how they feel, and what they mean. Having established her theoretical concerns, the author's eclectic readings of various artifacts of visual culture, fine arts, cinema, and rhetorical tropes provoke and destabilize readers' visual comfort zone, forcing them to recognize the unstated racial aspects of viewing and the foundational role of race in informing the visual. -- Back cover.
Rights Information
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License © Trustees of Dartmouth College
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1349/ddlp.3692
ISBN
1299558895
Publication Date
2013
Publisher
Dartmouth College Press
City
Hanover, New Hampshire
Original Citation
Print version: On the sleeve of the visual. Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, 2013. ISBN: 9781584659747. P94.5 .B55 R34 2013.
