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...
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Full Text (via De Gruyter) |
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| Other title: | When race changed sight in America |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2024.
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| 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."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 385 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674297739 0674297733 9780674297722 0674297725 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 22, 2024). |