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Since the nation’s founding, Black Americans have had a unique perspective on the U.S. experience—a “second sight”—that reveals the truth about the nation to itself. In , Sarah J. Jackson traces how Black journalists, photographers, filmmakers, radio hosts, podcasters, and other mediamakers have drawn on this tradition to advance democracy and broaden American values.

For two centuries, this “second sight” has shaped memories of the nation and pushed it toward a future more closely aligned with its espoused values. Drawing from W.E.B. Du Bois’s philosophical work, along with deep historical analysis and interviews with today’s most active Black mediamakers, A Second Sight shows these visionaries positioned at the margins of their industries and navigating fraught relationships to power.

Join the ������Ƶ Fellows Program for a conversation about A Second Sight.

Copies of A Second Sight are available for purchase  through Solid State Books.

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