The unseen truth : when race changed sight in America
When race changed sight in America
Sarah Lewis.
- viii, 385 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-357) and index.
Ungrounding: Reckoning after the Caucasian and Civil War -- Staging Truth: Frederick Douglass, the Circassian Beauties, and Picturing Progress -- Unsilencing the Past: The Production of Art, Culture, and History -- Negative Assembly: Mapping Racial Regimes and the Cartography of Liberation -- The Unseen Dream: Racial Detailing and the Legacy of Federal Segregation in the United States -- Epilogue: It Takes So Long to See.
"Sarah Lewis deciphers the hugely popular nineteenth-century images that failed to dislodge Americans' faith in the mythical white homeland of the Caucasus. Actual Caucasians little resemble race science's ideals of whiteness, so Americans learned to manipulate their visual regime-and visual media-to suppress evidence of race's incoherence."--
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Racism against Black people--History.--United States Segregación contra los negros --Historia --Estados Unidos Black race--Color--Public opinion--History.--United States Negros--Historia--Estados Unidos Caucasian race--Public opinion--History. Raza blanca Color vision--Social aspects--History.--United States Visual communication--Social aspects--History.--United States Race awareness--History.--United States Conciencia de raza --Estados Unidos Scientific racism--History.--United States Racismo --Estados Unidos African Americans--Segregation--History.
Caucasus, Northern (Russia)--History--Influence.--Russian Conquest, 1831-1859 United States--Race relations--History. Estados Unidos--Relaciones raciales--Historia