TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaschak,Ellyn
TI  - Sight Unseen: Gender and Race Through Blind Eyes 
SN  - 9780231172905
U1  - 305 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Blind
KW  - Blindness
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Discrimination
KW  - Racism
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Chapter one. The Eye of the Beholder --; Chapter two. Blind Date --; Chapter three. The Color of Blindness --; Chapter four. Hiding in Plain Sight --; Chapter five. Looks Are Everything --; Chapter six. Three's Company --; Chapter seven. Talking Black: The Color Code --; Chapter eight. Double Blind: Abigail --; Chapter nine. Double Blind: Gabrielle --; Chapter ten. Blind Citizenship Classes: The Mirror Does Not Reflect --; Chapter eleven. Not Seeing Is Also Believing --; Further readings --; Works cited --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Sight Unseen reveals the cultural and biological realities of race, gender, and sexual orientation from the perspective of the blind. Through ten case studies and dozens of interviews, Ellyn Kaschak taps directly into the phenomenology of race, gender, and sexual orientation among blind individuals, along with the everyday epistemology of vision. Kaschak's work reveals not only how the blind create systems of meaning out of cultural norms but also how cultural norms inform our conscious and unconscious interactions with others regardless of our physical ability to see
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/kasc17290
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231539531
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231539531/original
ER  -