The myth of white ignorance - Contemporary Photography and Whiteness with Daniel C. Blight from reproduction in class 8 chapter Watch Video
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Description: Writer and academic Daniel C. Blight discusses the relationship between photography and racial whiteness. Despite the history and theory of photography’s critical turn to questions of colonialism, imperialism and race, these important discourses have left the visual logic of racial whiteness largely unexamined. Blight suggests that in order for “western” photography to properly confront its violent participation in the development and continuation of white supremacy, it might begin an eluc
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