Sarah Lewis

Sarah Lewis Instagram – Wow!! Thank you @chicagotribune:
“The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America by Sarah Lewis: Lewis, a Harvard University cultural historian with a specialty in how visual arts shape the world, is one of a few innovators worthy of that overused title ‘disruptor.’ She works here in the period from the Civil War to Jim Crow, showing how civic leaders (Woodrow Wilson, P.T. Barnum) willfully disregarded evidence that race was a myth, establishing racial hierarchy. It’s a fascinating history of cultural blindness, centered on the Caucasus region in Europe, from which we derive ‘caucasian,’ and where scholars rooted whiteness. Americans sympathized with the Caucasus people as they went to war against Russia — and then photos circulated showing a population far from just white. It’s a handsome, art-filled book about how choosing to ignore facts creates the illusion of truth.” —Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune | Posted on 27/Nov/2024 23:05:23