The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening

by Jennifer Lynn Stoever

Book Overview

The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear.

Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see "difference." At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The Sonic Color Line argues that American ideologies of white supremacy are just as dependent on what we hear--voices, musical taste, volume--as they are on skin color or hair texture. Reinforcing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479889342
• ISBN13: 9781479889341
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"