Deconstructing the Albino Other - A Critique of Albinism Identity in Media (Hardcover)

Deconstructing the Albino Other: A Critique of Albinism Identity in Media discusses how American popular culture and communication about albinism, including movie characters and memes, have worked to create and maintain a negative trope of albinism that situates people with albinism (PWA) as a monolithic other. Niya Pickett Miller demonstrates that consequently, PWA must construct their own identities of albinism, highlighting the salient aspects of themselves as they see fit with no valid representation to look to for guidance. Thus, Pickett Miller argues, self-defining for PWA is a key rhetorical action taken to rearticulate albinism identity. Rather than focusing on scientific and medical lenses of analysis, this book positions albinism as a social construct through which a broader understanding of otherness can be achieved, using the negative influence of pop culture's otherization of PWA as a case study with broader implications, including how medical conditions can be visually troped to isolate the other outside of society's realm of normalcy. Scholars of media studies, race studies, sociology, rhetoric, and the medical humanities will find this book particularly useful.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2020
Authors:	Niya Pickett Miller
Dimensions:	229 x 161 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-1-79363-087-2
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
LSN:	1-79363-087-9
Barcode:	9781793630872

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