In the 19th Century, a war on the boundary between Europe and Asia had an unexpected effect. It caused the American public to re-examine one of the terms with which they described race: Caucasian.Don Wildman is joined for this episode by the award-winning art historian Sarah Lewis. They explore how the term Caucasian came to be associated with whiteness, and how photography was fundamental to unpicking this myth.Sarah is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is also the founder of the Vision & Justice initiative and author of the book discussed here: 'The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America'.Produced and edited by Sophie Gee. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe. You can take part in our listener survey here.American History Hit is a History Hit podcast.
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Hallo ihr Mäuse, wir sind Janni und Alina vom Podcast Wine Wednesday.
Und wir spielen am 12.6. im Kino am Olympiasee. Sagt man am Olympiasee? Oder im Olympiasee?
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Und wir spielen am 12.06. im Kino am Olympiasee in Zusammenarbeit mit unserem Partner Backmarket eine Liveshow, unser allererstes Open Air.
Das Geile ist, wir dürfen auf der Bühne an euch Zuschauer und Zuschauerinnen einen 800 Euro Voucher für Backmarket verlosen. Es lohnt sich also nicht nur wegen unseren schönen Gesichtern zu kommen.
Hello all, just a note for me before we get into this. This episode contains outdated strong language, which has been used for historical context and accuracy. New York, 1855. Gaslights flicker, as the physician Dr. James McCune Smith leans over his writing desk.
Trained at the prestigious University of Glasgow in Scotland, Smith is an accomplished doctor and scholar, the first African American to earn a medical degree. He spends his work days at his New York practice, attending the needs of the children in Manhattan.
But at the same time, he is a trailblazer in the American Geographical Society, founder of the New York Statistics Institute and a co-architect of the Radical Abolitionist Party alongside Frederick Douglass.
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