{"product_id":"we-see-with-the-skin-roshanak-kheshti-9781478033394","title":"We See with the Skin: On Zora Neale Hurston's Methodology","description":"Roshanak Kheshti opens her book with a line from one of Zora Neale Hurston's earliest stories: \"we see with the skin.\" From this brief but potent line, Kheshti examines how Hurston's understanding of Black skin as both \u003ci\u003eseen \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eseeing\u003c\/i\u003e offers radical insight into racialized perception and Black consciousness. Kheshti follows Hurston's travels across the back woods of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana as a filmmaker and sensory ethnographer of the African diasporic spiritual practice of hoodoo. Through her travels, Hurston encountered a sensibility that could animate the object status of \u003ci\u003ebeing colored\u003c\/i\u003e with the power of a return gaze. Kheshti considers both how Hurston poetically exploited the synesthetic logic at the heart of race thinking--being colored--and how her embodied performance ethnography catalogued an outside to that logic. \u003ci\u003eWe See with the Skin\u003c\/i\u003e is an original mapping of Hurston's synesthetic theory and its broader implications for understanding minoritarian perception and thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roshanak Kheshti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478033398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478033394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Roshanak Kheshti","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49000974614783,"sku":"9781478033394","price":103.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/we-see-with-the-skin-roshanak-kheshti-9781478033394","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}