Book Title: Seeing Race Before Race

Subtitle: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World

Authors: Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey, eds.

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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.

Authors

Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey, eds.

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History of art

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Title
Seeing Race Before Race
Authors
Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey, eds.
License

Icon for the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

Seeing Race Before Race Copyright © 2023 by Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Primary Subject
History of art
Additional Subject(s)
Critical theory
Institution
Arizona State University
Publisher
ACMRS Press
Publication Date
April 11, 2023
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.54027/LBHG6986
Ebook ISBN
978-0-86698-843-8
Print ISBN
978-0-86698-841-4