LEADER 03394nam 2200481 450 001 9910795931603321 005 20230319161108.0 010 $a1-4214-2313-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000001443402 035 $a(OCoLC)994006238 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse60495 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4862735 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29184398 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29184398 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001443402 100 $a20230319d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIn the Looking Glass $emirrors and identity in early America /$fRebecca K. Shrum 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBaltimore :$cJohns Hopkins University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (pages cm) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4214-2312-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 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. 607 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$yTo 1775 607 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$y1775-1783 607 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$y1783-1865 676 $a973.1 700 $aShrum$b Rebecca K$g(Rebecca Kathleen),$f1972-$01568051 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795931603321 996 $aIn the Looking Glass$93839900 997 $aUNINA