The Unseen Truth When Race Changed Sight in America
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
25.09.2026
Verlag
Harvard University PressSeitenzahl
400
Maße (L/B/H)
22,7/14,9/2,5 cm
Gewicht
780 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-674-30608-0
The award-winning art historian and founder of Vision & Justice uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United States when Americans came to ignore the truth about the false foundations of the nation's racial regime.
In¿ämasterpiece of historical detective work, Sarah Lewis exposes one of the most damaging lies in American history. There was a time when Americans were confronted with the fictions that shored up the nation's racial regime and learned to disregard them.¿
The surprising catalyst was the Caucasian War-the fight for independence in the Caucasus that coincided with the end of the US Civil War. Images from the Caucasus captivated Americans but also showed that¿the place from which we derive "Caucasian" for whiteness was not white at all. Cultural and political figures ranging from P. T. Barnum to Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Woodrow Wilson recognized these¿fictions, exploiting, unmasking, critiquing, or burying them.¿
To acknowledge the falsehood at the core of racial order proved unthinkable, especially as Jim Crow took hold. Sight became a form of racial sculpture,¿vision¿a knife excising whatever did not serve the stability of racial hierarchy. That stability was shaped, crucially, by what Americans were conditioned not to see. Groundbreaking and profoundly resonant,¿The Unseen Truth¿shows how visual tactics have long secured our regime of racial hierarchy-and offers a way to begin to dismantle it.
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