689 records matched your query
03551aam a2200421 i 4500 001 9217ABF2033911E8972C924897128E48 003 SILO 005 20180127021036 008 161116t20172017mdua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016046947 020 $a 142142312X 020 $a 9781421423128 035 $a (OCoLC)965781449 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E162 $b .S557 2017 082 00 $a 973.1 $2 23 100 1 $a Shrum, Rebecca K. $q (Rebecca Kathleen), $d 1972- $e author. 245 10 $a In the looking glass : $b mirrors and identity in early America / $c Rebecca K. Shrum. 264 1 $a Baltimore : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 221 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 2 $a "In the Looking Glass explores how mirrors shaped human identity in North America from the earliest European explorations through the nineteenth century. Early Americans--African, Native, and European--had uses for and beliefs about reflective surfaces, largely associating reflection with ritual and magic, which predated the introduction of accurately reflective mirrors (ca. 1500). These new mirrors played a critical role in shaping a person's individual sense of self and came to be intimately linked to identity formation in early America. Moreover, mirrors became an object through which white men asserted their claims to modernity, emphasizing mirrors as fulcrums of truth that enabled them to know and master themselves and their world. In claiming that mirrors revealed and substantiated their own enlightenment and rationality, white men sought to differentiate how they used mirrors from not only white women but also from Native American and African American men and women. Mirrors thus played an important role in the construction of early American racial and gender hierarchies. This project brings together the history of technology and the history of identity, using textual, visual, and material sources to focus on how mirrors were created, adopted, adapted, and discussed by a wide variety of early Americans. In the Looking Glass will attract a wide audience of scholars from history, African American studies, Native American studies, material studies, history of technology, and gender studies, as well as a broader audience concerned with questions of image and identity"--Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The evolving technology of the looking glass -- First glimpses : mirrors in seventeenth-century New England -- Looking glass ownership in early America -- Reliable mirrors and troubling visions : nineteenth-century white -- Understandings of sight -- Fashioning whiteness -- Mirrors in black and red -- Epilogue. 651 0 $a United States $x Social life and customs $y To 1775. 651 0 $a United States $x Social life and customs $y 1775-1783. 651 0 $a United States $x Social life and customs $y 1783-1865. 651 0 $a United States $x Social conditions $y To 1865. 650 0 $a Mirrors $x History. $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Identity (Psychology) $x History. $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Race awareness $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Sex role $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Technology $x History. $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Material culture $z United States $x History. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214021130.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9217ABF2033911E8972C924897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search