| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture. By Martin A. Berger. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xvi, 236 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-520-24459-1.)

It is perhaps appropriate that an art historian should devise a work that shows us not another way to look at the subject of whiteness, but a way to look through it. Armed with the assumption that even when European Americans did not perceive a racial issue, they "responded ... in ways that betrayed their investment in whiteness," Sight Unseen examines bucolic paintings, landscape photography, civic architecture, and silent movies to uncover the meanings imposed by a racialized perspective (p. 173, emphasis in original). To illustrate this approach, Martin A. Berger examines works featuring only white people, or no people at all.

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