The moment of racial sight : a history /
Tucker, Irene.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1: Kant's Dermatology; or, The Racialization of Skin. Kant's ;Time Beyond Humors: Distinguishing Race and Medicine ; Kant: Skin Deep ; Institutions of the Body ; Autopsy's Gerontological Critique ; Beyond the Humors: Kant's Race ; The Instant of the Skin. -- 2: Paranoid Imagining: Wilkie Collins, the Rugeley Poisoner, and the Invisibility of Novelistic Ekphrasis. Qualifications of Character ; Aristotle's Fictive Community ; Seeing Is Imagining ; The Trial of the Poisoning Physician ; The Disappearance of the Author. -- 3: Picturing Utilitarianism: John Stuart Mill and the Invention of a Photographic Public. Reproducing the Photographic Moment ; Agreements without End: On Liberty and "What Is Poetry?" ; Overhearing The Subjection of Women. -- 4: Observing Selection: Charles Darwin and the Emergence of the Racial Sign. Malthus's Disappearing Perspective ; Selecting a Point of View: Darwin's Origins ; The Point of View from Nowhere: Darwin and His Predecessors ; Figuring Legibility: Darwin's Expression, Descent, and the Solution of Race. -- 5: Structures of an Instant: The Wire and the Institution of Race. Racing Space and the Logic of "Real Estate" ; Examination 1: Opacity for Sale; Stringer Bell's Real Estate ; Examination 2: The Semiotics of the Paper Bag ; Examination 3: Vacant Real Estate ; Examination 4: Jimmy McNulty's Suspended Bodies.
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Wire (Television program)
Race awareness
Race in literature.