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

by Noémie Ndiaye
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780866988421
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance S
  • Publisher Imprint: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance S
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  • Pages: 300
  • Original Price: USD 49.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1116 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Movements / Critical Theory, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, and Movements / Renaissance

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.

Markey, Lia: - Lia Markey is director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library. She is the author of Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence and coeditor of The New World in Early Modern Italy, 1492-1750.

Ndiaye, Noémie: - Noémie Ndiaye is assistant professor of Renaissance and Early Modern English Literature at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race and Racecraft: Early Modern Repertoires of Blackness.

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