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Podcast: New Books in Communications
Episode: Nicholas Mirzoeff, "White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness" (MIT Press, 2023)
Description: From the author of How to See the World comes a new history of white supremacist ways of seeingâand a strategy for dismantling them. White supremacy is not only perpetuated by laws and police but also by visual culture and distinctive ways of seeing. Nicholas Mirzoeff argues that this form of âwhite sightâ has a history. By understanding that it was not always a common practice, we can devise better ways to dismantle it. Spanning centuries across this wide-ranging text, Mirzoeff connects Renaissance innovationsâfrom the invention of perspective and the erection of Apollo statues as monuments t...