The intention of this assignment is to draw from the contributions of several scholars, as to investigate and explore aspects and theories surrounding the representation of whiteness in contemporary and western visual culture. By bringing the two academic fields together and into dialogue with each other, one might suggest that the visual and act of sight, being a social practice, is racialised in its execution, as well as being malleable to the ethnic frameworks and contest of any social sphere in contemporary society (Smith 2014:1). Similarly, racial studies and ethnographic academic discourses share in the impetus of interdisciplinary inquiry and attention on social dynamic and relationships. Visual culture, as an academic and interdisciplinary area of inquiry and study, is not bound by the traditional representations claimed by any singular academic field rather, visual culture and its academic discourse encourages scholars to investigate how people learn to see and how they comprehend what they are viewing (Smith 2014:1).
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