The Unseen Truth

When Race Changed Sight in America
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-674-30608-0
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 780 g

Sarah Lewis unearths the critical moment when Americans were confronted with the fictions shoring up the nation’s racial regime and learned to disregard them. When popular nineteenth-century images of the Caucasus proved the lie of white supremacy, a new visual regime arose to suppress the evidence of the incoherence of racial order.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lewis, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Lewis, Sarah
Sarah Lewis is the author and editor of over sixty publications, including <i>If Emmett </i><i>Till Lived,</i> the bestselling book <i>The Rise,</i> and the award-winning volumes “Vision & Justice” and <i>Carrie Mae Weems.</i> She is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Infinity Award, the Freedom Scholar Award, and the American Book Award. Her writing has appeared in the <i>New Yorker,</i> the <i>New York Times, Artforum,</i> and the <i>New York Review </i><i>of Books.</i> Lewis is the founder of Vision & Justice and currently John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.