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Overturns the most familiar form of racial analysis in contemporary culture: the idea that race is constructed, that it operates by attaching visible marks of difference to arbitrary meanings and associations. The author's investigation begins in the Enlightenment, at the moment when skin first came to be used as primary mark of racial difference.

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"The Moment of Racial Sight is a work of complex cerebration and theoretical ambition. It seeks nothing short of a fundamental rethinking of the racial construction thesis that has come to assume the character of the very air we breathe in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. An astute, erudite, and often brilliant work, this book makes a huge contribution to critical theory, literary theory, and philosophy." (Stephen Best, University of California, Berkeley)"

The Moment of Racial Sight A History

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 1/11/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226922935, 978-0226922935
      ISBN10: 0226922936
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      Book Synopsis
      Overturns the most familiar form of racial analysis in contemporary culture: the idea that race is constructed, that it operates by attaching visible marks of difference to arbitrary meanings and associations. The author's investigation begins in the Enlightenment, at the moment when skin first came to be used as primary mark of racial difference.

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      "The Moment of Racial Sight is a work of complex cerebration and theoretical ambition. It seeks nothing short of a fundamental rethinking of the racial construction thesis that has come to assume the character of the very air we breathe in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. An astute, erudite, and often brilliant work, this book makes a huge contribution to critical theory, literary theory, and philosophy." (Stephen Best, University of California, Berkeley)"

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