Seeing race before race : visual culture and the racial matrix in the premodern world / edited by Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey.
2023
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Title
Seeing race before race : visual culture and the racial matrix in the premodern world / edited by Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey.
Published
Tempe, Arizona : ACMRS Press, 2023.
Copyright
©2023
Description
xxix, 274 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 31 cm
Associated name
Ndiaye, Noémie, editor.
Markey, Lia, editor.
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, publisher.
Newberry Library, host institution.
Markey, Lia, editor.
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, publisher.
Newberry Library, host institution.
Summary
"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 Noémie 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."-- Provided by publisher.
Note
"Accompanying an exhibition opening at the Newberry Library in September 2023"-- Foreword.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword / Ayanna Thompson and Daniel Greene
Introduction / Lia Markey and Noémie Ndiaye
Part 1: Figuring
Essay 1. Manuscripts and Printed Books: Book History and Race / Brandi K. Adams and Carissa M. Harris
Essay 2. Fashioning Racial Materiality in Nicolas de Nicolay's Representations of Jews / M. Lindsay Kaplan and Dana E. Katz
Note From the Field 1. "Touching each book": Demystifying Special Collections in Community / Analú María López
Exhibition Catalogue:"Seeing Race Before Race." Part 1: Figuring. Entries 1-14
Part 2: Mapping
Essay 3. Geographies of Race: Constructions of Constantinople/Istanbul in the Western European Imaginary / Roland Betancourt and Ambereen Dadabhoy
Essay 4. Race, Empire, and Cartography / Ricardo Padrón and Risa Puleo
Note From the Field 2. Displaying Black Art in the Medieval Galleries at The Met Museum / Andrea Myers Achi
Exhibition Catalogue: "Seeing Race Before Race." Part 2: Mapping. Entries 15-26
Part 3: Performing
Essay 5. Back Bending Labor, Savage Dances, Pious Stances: Race in Motion between Africa and the Americas / Elena FitzPatrick Sifford and Cécile Fromont
Note From the Field 3. Bringing Premodern Critical Race Consciousness to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre / Farah Karim-Cooper
Exhibition Catalogue: "Seeing Race Before Race." Part 3: Performing. Entries 27-42
Interview. On Early Modern Critical Race Studies and Critical Indigenous Studies / Kim F. Hall, Scott Manning Stevens, and L. Lehua Yim
Glossary
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Biographies of Contributors
Index.
Introduction / Lia Markey and Noémie Ndiaye
Part 1: Figuring
Essay 1. Manuscripts and Printed Books: Book History and Race / Brandi K. Adams and Carissa M. Harris
Essay 2. Fashioning Racial Materiality in Nicolas de Nicolay's Representations of Jews / M. Lindsay Kaplan and Dana E. Katz
Note From the Field 1. "Touching each book": Demystifying Special Collections in Community / Analú María López
Exhibition Catalogue:"Seeing Race Before Race." Part 1: Figuring. Entries 1-14
Part 2: Mapping
Essay 3. Geographies of Race: Constructions of Constantinople/Istanbul in the Western European Imaginary / Roland Betancourt and Ambereen Dadabhoy
Essay 4. Race, Empire, and Cartography / Ricardo Padrón and Risa Puleo
Note From the Field 2. Displaying Black Art in the Medieval Galleries at The Met Museum / Andrea Myers Achi
Exhibition Catalogue: "Seeing Race Before Race." Part 2: Mapping. Entries 15-26
Part 3: Performing
Essay 5. Back Bending Labor, Savage Dances, Pious Stances: Race in Motion between Africa and the Americas / Elena FitzPatrick Sifford and Cécile Fromont
Note From the Field 3. Bringing Premodern Critical Race Consciousness to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre / Farah Karim-Cooper
Exhibition Catalogue: "Seeing Race Before Race." Part 3: Performing. Entries 27-42
Interview. On Early Modern Critical Race Studies and Critical Indigenous Studies / Kim F. Hall, Scott Manning Stevens, and L. Lehua Yim
Glossary
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Biographies of Contributors
Index.
Item Details
Call number
NX650.R34 S44 2023