Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword
— Ayanna Thompson and Daniel Greene

Introduction
— Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey

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
— 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

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

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

Interview
On Early Modern Critical Race Studies and Critical Indigenous Studies
— Kim F. Hall, Scott Manning Stevens, L. Lehua Yim

Glossary

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Biographies of Contributors