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• 020 __ |a 9781421423128 |q (hardcover acid-free paper)

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• 020 __ |z 9781421423131 |q (electronic)

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• 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.

• 260 __ |a Baltimore : |b Johns Hopkins University Press, |c 2017.

• 300 __ |a 221 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm

• 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent

• 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia

• 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier

• 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references and index.

• 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.

• 650 _0 |a Mirrors |x Social aspects |z United States |x History.

• 650 _0 |a Identity (Psychology) |x Social aspects |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 Social aspects |z United States |x History.

• 650 _0 |a Material culture |z United States |x History.

• 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.