“Look, a [picture]!”: Visuality, race, and what we do not seePosted in Articles, Communications/Media Studies, Media Archive, United States on 2016-03-03 16:21Z by Steven |
“Look, a [picture]!”: Visuality, race, and what we do not see
Quarterly Journal of Speech
Volume 102, Issue 1, 2016
pages 62-78
DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2015.1136074
Elizabeth Kaszynski
Department of Communication and Culture
Indiana University
This article argues that understanding vision and visuality as associated but distinct terms has significant implications for the ways in which we engage with racial constructions of identity. Expanding the ways in which we visualize race beyond simply the visual offers us a more comprehensive approach to understanding the construction of and response to race in the twenty-first-century United States. This article moves from theoretical implications of non-visual visualizations like tactile visuality and audial visuality through photographs taken by blind photographers to ask how race and racial identity are implicated in conversations about both vision and visuality.
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