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Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth,
1979-,
author.
The unseen truth :
when race changed sight in America /
Sarah Lewis.
©2024.
Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2024]
400 pages :
illustrations (some color) ;
23 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
20241016.
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.
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