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"In this fiercely urgent book, Matthew Pratt Guterl focuses on how and why we come to see race in very particular ways. What does it mean to see someone as a color? As racially mixed or ethnically ambiguous? What history makes such things possible? Drawing creatively from advertisements, YouTube videos, and everything in between, Guterl redirects our understanding of racial sight away from the dominant categories of color--away from brown and yellow and black and white--and instead insists that we confront the visual practices that make those same categories seem so irrefutably important. Zooming out for the bigger picture, Guterl illuminates the long history of the practice of seeing--and believing in--race, and reveals that our troublesome faith in the details discerned by the discriminating glance is widespread and very popular. In so doing, he upends the possibility of a postracial society by revealing how deeply race is embedded in our culture, with implications that are often matters of life and death"--

The politics of Josephine Baker's adopted family cut cross the conventional divides between radical and conservative, transnational and national, and European and American. In studying her family, then, we can come to better understand the practices of diaspora and transnationalism in the twentieth century. We can more brightly illuminate the process of circulation, mediation, and translation that sat at the heart of Baker's assemblage. And we can provide a more sharply focused analysis of Baker's distinctive, celebrity-inflected feminism.

In comparing the adjustments to a free labor economy in the post-emancipation
United States South and in slaveholding Cuba, this essay reveals certain parallels and divergences. Most particularly, it emphasizes the relative position of both places in the global, national, and colonial economies, and it explores the political economy of race and work. Following Confederate expatriates and Victorian travelers from the United States to the Caribbean, it also draws attention to various intellectual and cultural connections between Cuba and the American South. Here, too, it is especially concerned
with shared notions of race and racial supremacy.