'Envisioning Others' offers a multidisciplinary view of the relationship between race and visual culture in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world, from the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal to colonial Peru and Colombia, post-Independence Mexico, and the pre-Emancipation United States. Contributed by specialists in Latin American and Iberian art history, literature, history, and cultural studies, its ten chapters take a transnational view of what 'race' meant, and how visual culture supported and shaped this meaning, within the Ibero-American sphere from the late Middle Ages to the modern era. Case studies and regionally-focused essays are balanced by historiographical and theoretical offerings for a fresh perspective that challenges the reader to discern broad intersections of race, color, and the visual throughout the Iberian world.
Author(s): Pamela A. Patton (ed.)
Series: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 62
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 382
City: Leiden
Acknowledgements vii
List of Illustrations viii
List of Contributors xii
Introduction: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia and Latin America / Pamela A. Patton 1
1. The Black Madonna of Montserrat: An Exception to Concepts of Dark Skin in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia? / Elisa A. Foster 18
2. Visualizing Black Sanctity in Early Modern Spanish Polychrome Sculpture / Erin Kathleen Rowe 51
3. The Color of Salvation: The Materiality of Blackness in Alonso de Sandoval’s 'De instauranda Aethiopum salute' / Grace Harpster 83
4. Imagined Transformations: Color, Beauty, and Black Christian Conversion in Seventeenth-Century Spanish America / Larissa Brewer-García 111
5. White or Black? Albinism and Spotted Blacks in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World / Ilona Katzew 142
6. Making Race Visible in the Colonial Andes / Ananda Cohen Suarez 187
7. From Casta to Costumbrismo: Representations of Racialized Social Spaces / Mey-Yen Moriuchi 213
8. Tropical Dreams: Promoting Brazil in Nineteenth-Century US Media / Beatriz E. Balanta 241
9. The Form of Race: Architecture, Epistemology, and National Identity
in Fernando Chueca Goitia’s 'Invariantes castizos de la arquitectura española' (1947) / Matilde Mateo 266
10. Race and the Historiography of Colonial Art / Charlene Villaseñor Black 303
Selected Bibliography 323
Index 362
