A color-blind perspective assumes that discrimination is a thing of the past, and denies the reality of race and racial inequality today.
"I thought it might be fun to review movies from a blind person's perspective to show sighted people what that frustration is like," says Edison.
Downey and Kleege spoke on their experiences navigating cities as a blind person, with perspectives shaped by their professional backgrounds.
Georgina Kleege (English) and Christopher Downey (Architecture) will talk about navigating the city as a blind person, with perspectives informed by their professions of writer and designer.
This perspective blinds us to the big water picture, and it sets up an unnecessary opposition between farms and cities. .
It strikes me that much of the angst that this survey uncovered is a direct result of security professionals being blinded by a binary perspective on security.
And I am concerned about the amateur, junk science that might get unleashed; as the saying goes, a little bit of knowledge can be dangerous, and the power of the story about storytelling chemistry might actually blind us to other perspectives, competing or complementary.
Viewing history from the unmoored perspective of that blind spot on the river, Mr. Erickson reinvents "a cen- tury when time and space have liberated themselves of all reference points," and perhaps good and evil have done the same.
And in "Homer and Langley" (2009), he created a tour of 20th-century history from the perspective of a blind man, Homer Collyer, a highly fictionalized rendering of one of two eccentric brothers living on upper Fifth Avenue who became notorious after their deaths for their obsessive hoarding.
Told from the perspective of a blind person, the play follows Meggie's terror and confusion as she strains to understand a series of shocking events and the silences in between.
