Seeing Race Before Race - Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World

Noemie Ndiaye, Lia Markey

Seeing Race Before Race - Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
Country
United States
Published
12 October 2023
Pages
300
ISBN
9780866988421

Seeing Race Before Race - Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World

Noemie Ndiaye, Lia Markey

Explores the deployment of racial thinking and racial formations in the visual culture of the pre-modern world.

The capacious visual archive studied in this volume includes a trove of materials such as annotated or illuminated manuscripts, Renaissance costume books and travel books, maps and cartographic volumes produced by Europeans as well as Indigenous peoples, mass-printed pamphlets, jewelry, decorative arts, religious iconography, paintings from around the world, ceremonial objects, festival books, and play texts intended for live performance.

Contributors explore the deployment of what coeditor Noemie Ndiaye calls "the racial matrix" and its interconnected paradigms across the medieval and early modern chronological divide and across vast transnational and multilingual geographies. This volume uses items from the Fall 2023 exhibition "Seeing Race Before Race"-a collaboration between RaceB4Race and the Newberry Library-as a starting point for an ambitious theoretical conversation between premodern race studies, art history, performance studies, book history, and critical race theory.

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