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The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America
By Lewis, Sarah
- ISBN
- 9781666670295
- Publisher
- Dreamscape Media
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Reviewed on March 7, 2025 | Audio In Depth: Social Sciences
Lewis (African and African American studies, Harvard Univ.; The Rise) investigates how images shaped American perceptions of race from the Civil War to the Jim Crow era. Narrating her own work, Lewis describes how the rise of photography facilitated racializing and cataloguing people's physical features, which made it easier to discriminate between people based on their appearance. By looking closely at positive and negat...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
