Concepedia

The girl in the picture and the eye of her beholder: Viet Nam, whiteness, and the disavowal of indigeneity

Continuum · 2004 · 14 citations · 3 references

Concepts

HumanitiesCultural StudiesHistoryVisual CultureWhiteness StudiesWomen's HistoryHistory Of WhitenessImage StudiesRacismVisual Culture CriticismWhite SupremacyImage PoliticsInterrogations Of WhitenessPhotographic Self-representationPostwar Visual Culture

Abstract

Our concern with history … is a concern with pre‐formed images … images at which we keep staring while the truth lies elsewhere, away from it all, somewhere as yet undiscovered. (Sebald, 2002) Imag...

References

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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination.

Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Toni Morrison · Journal of American History · 1993 · 3.1K citations

Humanities, Literature, Whiteness Studies +4

White

Richard Dyer · Screen · 1988 · 810 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Philosophy Of Language +2

Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation.

Glenn Banks · Pacific Affairs · 2000 · 262 citations

Humanities, Cultural Studies, Religious Studies +17