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作       者:Tucker, Irene

出  版  社:University of Chicago Press

出版时间:2013-11-01

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The Moment of Racial Sight 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. Searching for the history of the constructed racial sign, Irene Tucker argues that if people instantly perceive racial differences despite knowing better, then the underlying function of race is to produce this immediate knowledge. Racial perception, then, is not just a mark of acculturation, but a part of how people know one another.?Tucker begins her investigation in the Enlightenment, at the moment when skin first came to be used as the primary mark of racial difference. Through Kant and his writing on the relation of philosophy and medicine, she describes how racialized skin was created as a mechanism to enable us to perceive the likeness of individuals in a moment. From there, Tucker tells the story of instantaneous racial seeing across centuries-from the fictive bodies described but not seen in Wilkie Collins's realism to the medium of common public opinion in John Stuart Mill, from the invention of the notion of a constructed racial sign in Darwin's late work to the institutionalizing of racial sight on display in the HBO series The Wire. Rich with perceptive readings of unexpected texts, this ambitious book is an important intervention in the study of race.
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Cover

Copyright

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

One. Kant’s Dermatology; or, The Racialization of Skin

Kant’s Time

Beyond Humors: Distinguishing Race and Medicine

Kant: Skin Deep

Institutions of the Body

Autopsy’s Gerontological Critique

Beyond the Humors: Kant’s Race

The Instant of the Skin

Two. Paranoid Imagining: Wilkie Collins, the Rugeley Poisoner, and the Invisibility of Novelistic Ekphrasis

Qualifications of Character

Aristotle’s Fictive Community

Seeing Is Imagining

The Trial of the Poisoning Physician

The Disappearance of the Author

Three. Picturing Utilitarianism: John Stuart Mill and the Invention of a Photographic Public

Reproducing the Photographic Moment

Agreements without End: On Liberty and “What Is Poetry?”

Overhearing The Subjection of Women

Four. Observing Selection: Charles Darwin and the Emergence of the Racial Sign

Malthus’s Disappearing Perspective

Selecting a Point of View: Darwin’s Origins

The Point of View from Nowhere: Darwin and His Predecessors

Figuring Legibility: Darwin’s Expression, Descent, and the Solution of Race

Five. Structures of an Instant: The Wire and the Institution of Race

Racing Space and the Logic of “Real Estate”

Examination 1: Opacity for Sale; Stringer Bell’s Real Estate

Examination 2: The Semiotics of the Paper Bag

Examination 3: Vacant Real Estate

Examination 4: Jimmy McNulty’s Suspended Bodies

Notes

Index

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