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Race and Visual Culture in Global Times

Race and Visual Culture in Global Times

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AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 5, 2026

ISBN10: 1780932448
ISBN13: 9781780932446
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Feb 5 2026
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.00
Language: English

The world of images is radically challenging our understanding of race and politics. This book examines the changing representation of race and ethnicity in the visual culture of the first decade of the 21st century - a period marked by the traumas of 9/11, the 'war on terror', and the crisis of neoliberal capitalism. Through this exploration the author highlights the contradictions of a media culture in which discourses of multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism and cultural hybridity are juxtaposed with images of Islamophobia, ethnic nationalism and anti-immigrant racism.

In contrast to dominant approaches the book situates racial, postcolonial, diasporic and feminist aesthetics in relation to shifts in global capitalism, class and commodity culture.Through an analysis of global news media, independent film, television drama, Hollywood cinema, science fiction, horror, photography, experimental digital art and pop culture it affirms the continued political significance of the visual and the body in contemporary culture.

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