Color Blind

Color Blind
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 468
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780061740558
ISBN-13 : 0061740551
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Color Blind by : Jonathan Santlofer

Kate McKinnon is back -- and this time it's personal. When two hideously eviscerated bodies are discovered and the only link between them is a bizarre painting left at each crime scene, the NYPD turns to former cop Kate McKinnon, the woman who brought the serial killer the Death Artist to justice. Having settled back into her satisfying life as art historian, published author, host of a weekly PBS television series, and wife of one of New York's top lawyers, Kate wants no part of it. But Kate's sense of tranquility is shattered when this new sequence of murders strikes too close to home. With grief and fury to fuel her, she rejoins her former partner, detective Floyd Brown, and his elite homicide squad on the hunt for a vicious psychopath known as the Color-Blind Killer. In her rage and desperation, Kate allows herself to be drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse. She abandons her glamorous life for the gritty streets of Manhattan, immersing herself in a world where brutality and madness appear to be the norm, where those closest to her may have betrayed her -- and where, in the end, nothing is what it seems.

The Problem of the Color[blind]

The Problem of the Color[blind]
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9780472051267
ISBN-13 : 0472051261
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis The Problem of the Color[blind] by : Brandi Wilkins Catanese

"Catanese's beautifully written and cogently argued book addresses one of the most persistent sociopolitical questions in contemporary culture. She suggests that it is performance and the difference it makes that complicates the terms by which we can even understand 'multicultural' and 'colorblind' concepts. A tremendously illuminating study that promises to break new ground in the fields of theatre and performance studies, African American studies, feminist theory, cultural studies, and film and television studies." ---Daphne Brooks, Princeton University "Adds immeasurably to the ways in which we can understand the contradictory aspects of racial discourse and performance as they have emerged during the last two decades. An ambitious, smart, and fascinating book." ---Jennifer DeVere Brody, Duke University Are we a multicultural nation, or a colorblind one? The Problem of the Color[blind] examines this vexed question in American culture by focusing on black performance in theater, film, and television. The practice of colorblind casting---choosing actors without regard to race---assumes a performing body that is somehow race neutral. But where, exactly, is race neutrality located---in the eyes of the spectator, in the body of the performer, in the medium of the performance? In analyzing and theorizing such questions, Brandi Wilkins Catanese explores a range of engaging and provocative subjects, including the infamous debate between playwright August Wilson and drama critic Robert Brustein, the film career of Denzel Washington, Suzan-Lori Parks's play Venus, the phenomenon of postblackness (as represented in the Studio Museum in Harlem's "Freestyle" exhibition), the performer Ice Cube's transformation from icon of gangsta rap to family movie star, and the controversial reality television series Black. White. Concluding that ideologies of transcendence are ahistorical and therefore unenforceable, Catanese advances the concept of racial transgression---a process of acknowledging rather than ignoring the racialized histories of performance---as her chapters move between readings of dramatic texts, films, popular culture, and debates in critical race theory and the culture wars.

Erik the Red Sees Green

Erik the Red Sees Green
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Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
Total Pages : 36
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780807521427
ISBN-13 : 0807521426
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Erik the Red Sees Green by : Julie Anderson

Exuberant redhead Erik always tries his best, but he just can’t understand why he’s missing homework questions at school and messing up at soccer practice. Then one day in art class everyone notices that Erik’s painted a picture of himself with green hair! It turns out he’s not just creative, he’s color blind, too. Color blindness, also known as Color Vision Deficiency (CVD), affects a significant percentage of the population. The tendency to color-code learning materials in classrooms can make it especially hard for kids with CVD. But once Erik is diagnosed, he and his parents, teachers, coach, and classmates figure out solutions that work with his unique way of seeing, and soon he’s back on track.

Colorblind

Colorblind
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Publisher : City Lights Publishers
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0872865088
ISBN-13 : 9780872865082
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Colorblind by : Tim Wise

How "colorblindness" in policy and personal practice perpetuate racial inequity in the United States today

Color Blind

Color Blind
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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages : 386
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780802121370
ISBN-13 : 0802121373
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Color Blind by : Tom Dunkel

Taking readers back in time to 1947, an award-winning journalist chronicles an integrated baseball team in Bismarck, North Dakota that rose above a segregated society to become champions, delving into the history of the players, the town and baseball itself.

Beyond Colorblind

Beyond Colorblind
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Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Total Pages : 219
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780830888979
ISBN-13 : 0830888977
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Beyond Colorblind by : Sarah Shin

While society may try to be colorblind, we can’t ignore that God created us with our ethnic identities, and he made them for good. Ethnicity and evangelism specialist Sarah Shin reveals how our broken ethnic stories can be restored and redeemed, demonstrating God's power to others and bringing good news to the world. Discover how your ethnic story can be transformed for compelling witness and mission.

The Island of the Colour-blind

The Island of the Colour-blind
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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Total Pages : 326
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781447204947
ISBN-13 : 1447204948
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis The Island of the Colour-blind by : Oliver Sacks

'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging' – Sunday Times Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny atoll of Pingelap, with its isolated community of islanders born totally colour-blind; and to Guam, where he investigates a puzzling paralysis endemic there for a century. Along the way, he re-encounters the beautiful, primitive island cycad trees – and these become the starting point for a meditation on time and evolution, disease and adaptation, and islands both real and metaphorical in The Island of the Colour-Blind.

Seeing a Color-Blind Future

Seeing a Color-Blind Future
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 81
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781466896055
ISBN-13 : 1466896051
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Seeing a Color-Blind Future by : Patricia J. Williams

In these five eloquent and passionate pieces (which she gave as the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC) Patricia J. Williams asks how we might achieve a world where "color doesn't matter"--where whiteness is not equated with normalcy and blackness with exoticism and danger. Drawing on her own experience, Williams delineates the great divide between "the poles of other people's imagination and the nice calm center of oneself where dignity resides," and discusses how it might be bridged as a first step toward resolving racism. Williams offers us a new starting point--"a sensible and sustained consideration"--from which we might begin to deal honestly with the legacy and current realities of our prejudices.

The Black Book of Colors

The Black Book of Colors
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Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Total Pages : 34
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39076002800436
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis The Black Book of Colors by : Menena Cottin

In a story where the text appears in white letters on a black background, as well as in braille, and the illustrations are also raised on a black surface, Thomas describes how he recognizes different colors using various senses.

Color Blind

Color Blind
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 370
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780698170520
ISBN-13 : 0698170520
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Color Blind by : Colby Marshall

SYNESTHESIA: A neurological condition characterized by automatic, involuntary sensory perceptions triggered by seemingly unrelated stimuli. There is something unusual about Dr. Jenna Ramey’s brain, a rare perceptual quirk that punctuates her experiences with flashes of color. They are hard to explain: red can mean anger, or love, or strength. But she can use these spontaneous mental associations, understand and interpret them enough to help her read people and situations in ways others cannot. As an FBI forensic psychiatrist, she used it to profile and catch criminals. Years ago, she used it to save her own family from her charming, sociopathic mother. Now, the FBI has detained a mass murderer and called for Jenna’s help. Upon interrogation she learns that, behind bars or not, he holds the power to harm more innocents—and is obsessed with gaining power over Jenna herself. He has a partner still on the loose. And Jenna’s unique mind, with its strange and subtle perceptions, may be all that can prevent a terrifying reality…