Title The unseen truth : when race changed sight in America / Sarah Lewis.

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2024]
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Description	viii, 385 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Ungrounding: the Caucasian War and the second founding of the United States -- Racial adjudication: Frederick Douglass and the Circassian beauties -- Unsilencing the past: the production of race, 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.
Summary	"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
Subject	Racism against Black people -- United States -- History.
	Black race -- Color -- United States -- Public opinion -- History.
	Caucasian race -- Public opinion -- History.
	Color vision -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
	Visual communication -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
	Race awareness -- United States -- History.
	Scientific racism -- United States -- History.
	African Americans -- Segregation -- History.
	Caucasus, Northern (Russia) -- History -- Russian Conquest, 1831-1859 -- Influence.
	United States -- Race relations -- History.
	Black race -- Color -- Public opinion -- History.
	HISTORY -- United States -- General.
Added Title	When race changed sight in America
Other Form:	Online version: Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth, 1979- Unseen truth. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2024 9780674297739 (DLC) 2024001352
ISBN	9780674238343 (hardcover)
	0674238346 (hardcover)
	9780674297739 (electronic publication)
	0674297733 (electronic publication)

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