Acknowledged (vii)
Introduction: The Strike Against Whiteness (1)
Part I: White Sight in the World of Atlantic Slavery
1 The City, Ship, and Plantation (29)
2 The World of Statues in the Americas (59)
3 The Natural History of White Supremacy (93)
Part II: Imperial Visions, Anticolonial Ways of Seeing
4 The Imperial Screen (123)
5 The Anticolonial Way of Seeing (149)
6 The Cultural Unconscious and the Dispossessed (177)
Part III: The Crisis of Whiteness
7 The Strike Against Statues (197)
8 The General Crisis of Whiteness (227)
Acknowledgments (265)
Notes (267)
Bibliography (291)
Index (325)
Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. His many books include the best-selling How to See the World and The Right to Look, and his writing has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, Hyperallergic, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Included in The Next Big Idea Club’s February 2023 Must-Read
Books
"Mirzoeff’s new book, White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of
Whiteness, explores how systems of white supremacy see, and thus
order, the world in the unbroken history of colonialism, up to the
present day. White sight finds articulation in a vast array of
visual culture—from the monuments of colonialists and Confederates
that occupy (literally) key points in cities and towns, to the
deadly vision of the military drone’s-eye view, to the museum
displays of species made extinct through colonial slaughter. Where
the British Jamaican philosopher Charles W. Mills coined the term
“white ignorance” to describe the historically entrenched epistemic
block that forecloses knowledge of the brutal material realities of
racial capitalism, Mirzoeff’s term takes up the question of how
practices of whiteness operate in our fields of vision—and,
crucially, how to rupture that white reality and see
otherwise."
—The Los Angeles Review of Books
"White Sight continues Nicholas Mirzoeff ’s bold intervention on
visuality and counter-visuality in his earlier book, The Right to
Look, as both seek to develop a decolonial framework for the field
of visual culture studies...There is also a sense of continuation
in the sheer magnitude of the project: the analysis of artworks and
visual practice is combined with historical, anthropological and
geopolitical knowledge, which is contextualized in the cultural and
economic history of the Atlantic world. At its core, this new book
is also a call to action: to strike against whiteness."
—International Affairs
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