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The unseen truth : when race changed sight in America

text The unseen truth : when race changed sight in America

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"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... Read more
Contents
Ungrounding: Reckoning after the Caucasian and Civil War -- Staging Truth: Frederick Douglass, the Circassian Beauties, and Picturing Progress -- Unsilencing the Past: The Production of Art, Culture, and History -- Negative Assembly: Mapping Racia... Read more
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viii, 385 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Publisher
2024

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KCL 305.80097 LEWIS in Adult Non-fiction Reshelving

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