The unseen truth: when race changed sight in America

"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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1. Verfasser: Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth 1979- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press 2024
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Zusammenfassung:"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."--
Beschreibung:viii, 385 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 25 cm
ISBN:9780674238343
0674238346

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