In an exclusive event hosted by the Ford Foundation, award-winning art historian Sarah Lewis joined Sherrilyn Ifill and Darren Walker to discuss her new book The Unseen Truth.
Was America’s racial divide built on a lie? The Unseen Truth uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United States when Americans came to ignore the truth about the foundations of the nation’s racial regime.
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Sarah Lewis is the founder of Vision & Justice and the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of the bestseller, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery, and editor of the award-winning volumes, “Vision & Justice” and the anthology on the work of Carrie Mae Weems (MIT Press). Lewis’s awards include the Infinity Award, the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, a Cullman Fellowship, the Freedom Scholar Award (ASALH), the Arthur Danto/ASA Prize from the American Philosophical Association, and the Photography Network Book Prize. Her writing has been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Artforum, and the New York Review of Books, and her work has been the subject of profiles from The Boston Globe to the New York Times. A sought after public speaker, her mainstage TED talk received over 3 million views and she was a closing speaker at SXSW. She received her BA from Harvard University, an MPhil from Oxford University, an MA from Courtauld Institute of Art, and her PhD from Yale University. She lives in New York City and Cambridge, MA.
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