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"Written with clarity and elegance impressively and eclectically sourced with notes and bibliographies, and lavishly illustrated on exceptional stock with scores fo black-and-white plates and 18 color plates of paintings... White is a feast for both the mind and the eye. An excellent companion to bell hooks's... and an indispensable addition to undergraduate and graduate collections in cultural studies and film."
-Choice, April 1998 Vol. 35 No. 8
""White comes highly recommended as a textual site which attempts to bring greater humanity to the worls through an act of critical scholarship and honest self-deconstruction."
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""White [is a] terrifically intelligent examination of how the visual media, from painting to photography to film, represents whiteness as the esthetic ideal of the West."
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"Politically sensitive and culturally savvy. [A]n excellent study.."
-Shannon Steen, "Theatre Journal
"This book overflows with... perceptive and provocative arguments."
-"In These Times
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Whiteness is an invisible racial position, against which other ethnicities are examined. In White the author traces the representation of whiteness in the contexts of Christianity, colonialism and in a wide range of films.
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"Written with clarity and elegance impressively and eclectically sourced with notes and bibliographies, and lavishly illustrated on exceptional stock with scores fo black-and-white plates and 18 color plates of paintings... White is a feast for both the mind and the eye. An excellent companion to bell hooks's... and an indispensable addition to undergraduate and graduate collections in cultural studies and film."
-Choice, April 1998 Vol. 35 No. 8
""White comes highly recommended as a textual site which attempts to bring greater humanity to the worls through an act of critical scholarship and honest self-deconstruction."
-Tribune, 2/99
""White [is a] terrifically intelligent examination of how the visual media, from painting to photography to film, represents whiteness as the esthetic ideal of the West."
-"The New York Times, 3/99
"Politically sensitive and culturally savvy. [A]n excellent study.."
-Shannon Steen, "Theatre Journal
"This book overflows with... perceptive and provocative arguments."
-"In These Times
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Whiteness is an invisible racial position, against which other ethnicities are examined. In White the author traces the representation of whiteness in the contexts of Christianity, colonialism and in a wide range of films.
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