Matthew Pratt Guterl: 3 books
by Matthew Pratt Guterl
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
In this fiercely urgent book, Matthew Pratt Guterl focuses on how and why we come to see race in very particular ways. What does it mean to see someone as a color? As racially mixed or ethnically ambiguous? What history makes such things possible? Drawing creatively from advertisements, YouTube videos,...
Hotel Life
The Story of a Place Where Anything Can Happen
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
What is a hotel? As Caroline Field Levander and Matthew Pratt Guterl show us in this thought-provoking book, even though hotels are everywhere around us, we rarely consider their essential role in our modern existence and how they help frame our sense of who and what we are. They are, in fact, as...
by Matthew Pratt Guterl
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Her performing days numbered, Josephine Baker did something outrageous: she transformed her chateau into a theme park whose main attraction was her Rainbow Tribe--12 children from around the globe, adopted as the family of the future. Matthew Pratt Guterl concludes that Baker was a serious activist, determined to make a positive difference.