Blinded by Sight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blinded by Sight write by Osagie Obasogie. This book was released on 2013-12-11. Blinded by Sight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Colorblindness has become an integral part of the national conversation on race in America. Given the assumptions behind this influential metaphor—that being blind to race will lead to racial equality—it's curious that, until now, we have not considered if or how the blind "see" race. Most sighted people assume that the answer is obvious: they don't, and are therefore incapable of racial bias—an example that the sighted community should presumably follow. In Blinded by Sight,Osagie K. Obasogie shares a startling observation made during discussions with people from all walks of life who have been blind since birth: even the blind aren't colorblind—blind people understand race visually, just like everyone else. Ask a blind person what race is, and they will more than likely refer to visual cues such as skin color. Obasogie finds that, because blind people think about race visually, they orient their lives around these understandings in terms of who they are friends with, who they date, and much more. In Blinded by Sight, Obasogie argues that rather than being visually obvious, both blind and sighted people are socialized to see race in particular ways, even to a point where blind people "see" race. So what does this mean for how we live and the laws that govern our society? Obasogie delves into these questions and uncovers how color blindness in law, public policy, and culture will not lead us to any imagined racial utopia.
Thriving Blind
Thriving Blind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thriving Blind write by Kristin Smedley. This book was released on 2019-02-26. Thriving Blind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stories of blind people who use creativity and determination to live the life of their dreams. Also includes lists of resources for advocacy, rehabilitation, recreation, and support systems for the blind.
Blindness Through the Looking Glass
Blindness Through the Looking Glass - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blindness Through the Looking Glass write by Gili Hammer. This book was released on 2019-10-03. Blindness Through the Looking Glass available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modern Western culture is saturated with images, imprinting visual standards of concepts such as beauty and femininity onto our collective consciousness. Blindness Through the Looking Glass examines how gender and femininity are performed and experienced in everyday life by women who do not rely on sight as their dominant mode of perception, identifying the multiple senses involved in the formation of gender identity within social interactions. Challenging visuality as the dominant mode to understand gender, social performance, and visual culture, the book offers an ethnographic investigation of blindness (and sight) as a human condition, putting both blindness and vision “on display” by discussing people’s auditory, tactile, and olfactory experiences as well as vision and sight, and by exploring ways that individuals perform blindness and “sightedness” in their everyday lives. Based on in-depth interviews with 40 blind women in Israel and anthropological fieldwork, the book investigates the social construction and daily experience of blindness in a range of domains. Uniquely, the book brings together blind symbolism with the everyday experiences of blind and sighted individuals, joining in mutual conversation the fields of disability studies, visual culture, anthropology of the senses, and gender studies.
Seeing Beyond Sight
Seeing Beyond Sight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seeing Beyond Sight write by Tony Deifell. This book was released on 2007-02-22. Seeing Beyond Sight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Seeing Beyond Sight illuminates the surprising power and creative potential of photography in an astonishing collection of images created by visually impaired teens"--P. [4] of cover.
Blind Sight
Blind Sight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blind Sight write by Meg Howrey. This book was released on 2012-09-04. Blind Sight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seventeen-year-old Luke Prescott has been brought up in a bohemian matriarchy, surrounded by his divorced New Age mother, his religious grandmother, and two precocious half-sisters. He is writing his college applications when his father—a famous television star— invites him to Los Angeles for the summer. Luke accepts and is plunged into a world of location shooting, celebrity interviews, glamorous parties, and premieres. But as he begins to know the difference between his father’s public persona and his private one, Luke finds himself questioning the new history he has created for himself.
