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Visual Culture - Coggle Diagram

- - - - -Rankine "Citizen": Woman's race ignored out
        -Ralph Ellison "The invisible man": people don't pay attention to him
        
        Shining the spotlight on white people and turning a blind eye to black people
        
        Figuratively not being seen
  - - - -Plato, The Allegory of the Cave: people who only see shadows and never reality
        -Stoichita, “A Short History of the Shadow: an Interview": interview interpreting Plato's allegory of the cave
        
        Both portray different forms of living a life of shadows
- - - - -David Batchelor, “Whitescapes,”: the extreme whiteness of a room and how overwhelming it is by being so pure
        -Le Corbussier, “A Coat of Whitewash: The Law of Ripolin,”: making everything white in order to clear everything and "think clearly"
        -Herman Melville, “The Whiteness of the Whale,”: the violence and fear communicated by the whiteness of the whale in Moby Dick
    - - Perspective changes how it is viewed