Sarah Lewis’s The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America (2024) is a magisterial and updated contribution to whiteness studies, championed by well-known figures in the 1990s such as Ruth Frankenberg’s White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness (1993). In this book, Lewis unearths a historical comparison between the US Civil War (1861-1865) and the Caucasian War (1817-1864) in which Russia attempted to and indeed successfully colonized the geographical area between the Black and Caspian Seas, which included parts of now Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Lewis argues that Confederate popular discourse similarly perceived the Civil War Read more