Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Part 1: Articulate Spaces



Chapter 1: The Racial Geometry of the Nation: Thomas Jefferson's Grids and Octagons

Irene Cheng



Chapter 2: Arctic Whiteness: William Bradford, Herman Melville, and the Invisible Spheres of Fright

Wyn Kelley



Chapter 3: Music and Military Movement: Racial Representation

Brigitte Fielder



Chapter 4: Black Faces Etched in White Stone: Black Feminist Visuality in Edmonia Lewis's Sculpture

Kelli Morgan



Chapter 5: Enchanted Optics: Excavating the Magical Empiricism of Holmesian Stereoscopic Sight

Cheryl Spinner



Chapter 6: Between Word and Image: The Use of Humor, Satire, and Caricature in Early Abolitionist Political Cartoons

Martha Cutter





Part 2: Democratic Visions



Chapter 7: Seeing Irony in Barnum's America: Anti-Slavery Humor in UncleTom's Cabin

Adena Spingarn



Chapter 8: Babo's Skull, Aranda's Skeleton: Visualizing the Sentimentality of Race Science in Benito Cereno

Christine Yao



Chapter 9: Melville's Greens: Color Theory and Democracy

Jennifer Greiman



Chapter 10: Narrative Structure as Secular Judgment in Thomas Crawford's Progress of Civilization

Kirsten Pai Buick



Chapter 11: Beheld by the Eye of God: Photography and the Promise of Democracy in Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave

Kya Mangrum



Chapter 12: Cotton Babies: Mama's Maybe: Kara Walker's Marvels of Invention

Janet Neary