E-book
The unseen truth : when race changed sight in America / Sarah Lewis.
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780674297739
- ISBN: 0674297733
- ISBN: 9780674297722
- ISBN: 0674297725
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 385 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps
- Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2024.
- Copyright: ©2024
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 22, 2024). |
