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Sarah Elizabeth Lewis

The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis

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Painting of horsemen in the Caucus mountains.

The Reckless Creation of Whiteness

How an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries of prejudice and misapprehension.

by Erin L. Thompson via The Nation on January 29, 2025

Arlen Parsa's Painting, Declaration of Independence Revisited (2019), the famous painting of the signing but with red dots over the faces of slaveholders.

How to Decolonize the Capitol

Art historians, legislators, and activists have long decried themes of white supremacy in the art collection of the U.S. Capitol. Can this place be decolonized?

by Marisa Angell Brown via Places Journal on June 14, 2022

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