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WHITE SIGHT - NICHOLAS MIRZOEFF GEBUNDEN

From the author of How to See the World comes a new history of white supremacist ways of
seeing—and 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 white sight” 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 innovations—from the invention of perspective
and the erection of Apollo statues as monuments to (white) beauty and power to the rise of
racial capitalism dependent on slave labor—with the ever-expanding surveillance technologies of
the twenty-first century to show that white sight creates an oppressively racializing world  in
which subjects who do not appear as white are under constant threat of violence. Analyzing
recent events like the George Floyd protests and the Central Park birdwatching incident 
Mirzoeff suggests that we are experiencing a general crisis of white supremacy that presents
both opportunities and threats to social justice. If we do not seize this moment to dismantle
white sight  then white supremacy might surge back stronger than ever. To that end  he
highlights activist interventions to strike the power of the white heteropatriarchal gaze.
White Sight is a vital handbook and call to action for anyone who refuses to live under
white-dominated systems and is determined to find a just way to see the world.

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