White: Essays on Race and Culture 1st Edition

I bought this book after hearing it referenced in an essay I was reading about race. It sounded intriguing, and I can't say I've been disappointed so far. The perspective given on white "culture" is written by a white gay British professor. I mention this only because I feel like his background offers him a different glimpse of the white worldview that many of us pale people live within. I am learning a lot by reading this book, beginning to question a lot of the things that our society takes as a given. It seems like a book I'd have read in college, but I think I am actually enjoying it more having graduated from college. Don't let that put you off; it is not strictly academic writing, it is quite easy to read.

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non-fictional literature is boring in many cases not here the photos are excellent and the text instructive very good work

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This is such a great book. It's really perceptive and intelligently written. I just finished it a few days ago and it's already changing the way I watch TV and film. I'm noticing how the ideology of whiteness in visual media entwines notions of purity and superiority with fears of existential nihilism. The last chapter of the book is particularly fascinating. It discusses the fear of death that's at the root of white people's racial ideations.

An often fascinating read in extremely intellgible English, Dyer shows how the idea of whiteness underpins more of Western visual culture than one might have thought. Ranging from fascinating discussions of how the actual chemical composition of film stock was engineered to maximize the representation of caucasian skin on celluloid to race in cheesy Italian sword-and-sandals films of the 1950s, this is a real triumph for academic writing--a work that's actually compelling for a non-specialist, but an important intervention in the field at the same time. The last chapter or two were a little less energetic than the predecessors, I thought, but overall, one of the best I've read of this kind.

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excellent book