The when race changed sight in America Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth 1979- creator text bibliography biography mau 2024 monographic eng viii, 385 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm "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."-- 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 Racial Regimes and the Cartography of Liberation -- The Unseen Dream: Racial Detailing and the Legacy of Federal Segregation in the United States -- Epilogue: It Takes So Long to See. Sarah Lewis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-357) and index. n-us--- e-ru--- Racism against Black people United States History Segregación contra los negros Estados Unidos Historia Black race Color United States Public opinion History Negros Historia Estados Unidos Caucasian race Public opinion History Raza blanca Color vision Social aspects United States History Visual communication Social aspects United States History Race awareness United States History Conciencia de raza Estados Unidos Scientific racism United States History Racismo Estados Unidos African Americans Segregation History Caucasus, Northern (Russia) History Russian Conquest, 1831-1859 Influence United States Race relations History Estados Unidos Relaciones raciales Historia 002 E 185.61 L676u 2024 305.800973 Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth, 1979- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2024 (DLC) 2024001352 9780674238343 (cloth) 0674238346 (cloth) 2024001351 MH/DLC 240119 20250512162034.0 23556699 eng