Seeing Race through the Lens

Knowles, Caroline. 2006. Seeing Race through the Lens. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 29(3), pp. 512-529. ISSN 01419870 [Article]

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Abstract or Description

This article reflects on the uses of visual ethnography to expose the mundane substance of racial categories and intersections with (racialized, ethnicized) cultural difference. Race and ethnicity are lived as well as narrated and, indeed, living is a form of narration which is particularly amenable to visual exploration. It is set in an empirical investigation of a microcosm of global migration in the lives of two white British lifestyle migrants to Hong Kong and their relationship with Chineseness, entered through their domestic arrangements, with the camera lens.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870600597917

Keywords:

Photography, visual ethnography, Hong Kong, whiteness, racial grammar

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Sociology

Dates:

DateEvent
1 May 2006Published

Item ID:

1990

Date Deposited:

12 Mar 2009 15:42

Last Modified:

07 Jul 2017 11:07

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/1990

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