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Visual Games and the Unseeing of Race in the Late Nineteenth Century

Visual Games and the Unseeing of Race in the Late Nineteenth Century

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Visual Games and the Unseeing of Race in the Late Nineteenth Century

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Visual Games and the Unseeing of Race in the Late Nineteenth Century

Publisher

College Park: Johns Hopkins University Press

Journal title

American quarterly, 2016-06, Vol.68 (2), p.287-313

Language

English

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College Park: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Contents

This article discusses the material and visual culture of popular ludic racism in the later nineteenth-century US. It argues that an object that gives visible form to bigotry does not simply appeal to or depict stereotypes but in fact instantiates them, activating those stereotypes perceptually, intellectually, and even physically. As both a percep...

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Visual Games and the Unseeing of Race in the Late Nineteenth Century

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1805459674

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1805459674

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ISSN

0003-0678,1080-6490

E-ISSN

1080-6490

DOI

10.1353/aq.2016.0022

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