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Dr. Sarah Elizabeth Lewis has one of the most illustrious resum\xe9s of all the guests on Pulling the Thread\u2014and I think we\u2019re the same age. Lewis is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University where she serves on the Standing Committee on American Studies and Standing Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. It was at Harvard that Lewis pioneered the course Vision and Justice: The Art of Race and American Citizenship, which she continues to teach and is now part of the University\u2019s core curriculum\u2014as it were, Lewis is the founder of Vision & Justice, which means that she is the organizer of the landmark Vision & Justice Convening, and co-editor of the Vision & Justice Book Series, launched in partnership with Aperture. Before joining the faculty at Harvard, she held curatorial positions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate Modern, London. She also served as a Critic at Yale University School of Art. I\u2019m not done\u2014in fact, I could go on and on. She\u2019s the author of The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery, a book on Carrie Mae Weems, and innumerable important academic papers. Today, we talk about The Rise and how it dovetails in interesting ways with her brand-new book, The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America, which is about the insidious idea that white people are from the Caucasus, a.k.a. Caucasian\u2014an idea that took root in the culture and helped determine the way we see race today.\xa0\n\nMORE FROM SARAH ELIZABETH LEWIS, PhD:\nThe Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America\nThe Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery\nCarrie Mae Weems\nSarah Lewis\u2019s Website\nVision & Justice\nFollow Sarah on Instagram\n \nTo learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy\n \n Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices