The Routledge Companion to Race in Early Modern Artistic, Material, and Visual Production / edited by Nicholas R. Jones, Christina H. Lee, and Dominique E. Polanco.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Nicholas R., 1982- editor.

Lee, Christina H., 1973- editor.

Polanco, Dominique E., editor.

Series:

Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race awareness in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (717 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, [2025]

Summary:

This companion analyzes, frames, and provokes race in insightful ways that center non-white communities' artistic and visual expression in the early modern period, rather than presenting the bias of European artistic and visual depictions of the colonization, enslavement, and subordination of People of Color.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Contributors

Introduction: America's Civilized

Part I: Reframing Africa within Europe and the Americas

1 Making Sail and Making Race in Medieval and Early Modern Portuguese Literature

2 Studying the Image of the Morisco: Challenges and Pitfalls

3 African Women in Rembrandt's Work

4 The Materiality of "Dressing Up" in Early Modern Spanish Literature

5 Reconsidering Race and the Colonial Process: Dutch Self-Imaging in the Long Seventeenth Century

6 Afro-Surinamese Flag Shrines: Materializing Group Identity in the Eighteenth Century

7 Nzinga Ndongo's Depiction in Giovanni Cavazzi's Istorica Descrizione (1687): Religious Conversion, Slave Trade, and Black Otherness

8 Convict Labor, Slavery, and Race in the Strait of Magellan: The Case of an Anonymous Manuscript in Elizabethan England (1579-1589)

9 Viewing Gloster: The Visual Culture of "Runaway" Advertisements in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

10 Black Matter: Assegais in Provincia de Venezuela

11 Visualizing Black Knighthood in Early Modern Iberia: João de Sá, the African Knight of Santiago in Chafariz d'el rei

12 How to Tame Your Dragon: Saint Martha, Hechicería, and Afro-Catholic Expressive Culture in Sixteenth-Century New Spain

13 Visions of Dignified Blackness: Labor and Sanctity in Úrsula de Jesús' Spiritual Diary

14 Constructing Racial Identity and Power in Music, Ceremonial Practices, and Indigenous Instruments in Early Modern African Kingdoms

15 Resonances of the African Baroque among New Spanish Nuns

16 Blackness, Performance, and Individual Subjectivity between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

17 Beyond "This Line": Visualizing Eleno de Céspedes

18 Afro-Brazilian Religious Architecture and Art.

19 The Art of Erasure: The Restoration and Conservation of a Portrait of une Femme du Couleur Libre from Antebellum New Orleans

Part II: Indigeneity and Early Decolonial Materials in Abya Yala and Turtle Island

20 Visions of Maize, Race, and Censorship in Early Colonial Mexico

21 The Town of Mixcoac and Its Neighborhoods: Notes on Its Nahua Foundation

22 Corn Is Blood: Pasta de caña de maíz as P'urhépecha Survivance

23 In the Necklace: The Historia de Tlaxcala's Colonial Representation of Kuskatan

24 Case Studies of the Colonial Chapels of Multiethnic Yucatec Neighborhoods

25 Dancing Bodies in the Maya Highlands: The Colonial-Period Murals of Chajul, Guatemala

26 The Bind of Andean Ethnicity: Textile Cranial Modification and the Stuff of Social Inequality

27 Beyond Race Constructs: Self-Representation and Indigenous Authority in the Coat of Arms of the Cacique Mayor Sancho Hacho de Velasco

28 Ambiguous Race in Early Modern Quito Sculpture

29 Race and Visions of Salvation in the Colonial Andes

30 Tracing Cáhita Indigenous Architectural Agency in Jesuit Mission Churches of Northwest Mexico, 1591-1767

31 Sovereign Stitches: Indigenous Body Arts on Turtle Island

32 Itom Hiak Noki: You Can Find Our Strength in Our Words

Part III: Transpacific Contestations and Reversals

33 Juana Manahin: The Exemplary Christian Tagalog Heiress (d. 1691)

34 Diabolical Scriptworlds and the Visuality of Early Modern Multilingualism in the Spanish Philippines

35 Indigenous datus' Constructions of Colonial Enslavement in the Philippines of Spain's Transpacific West

36 "What Thing Is an Indian?" Casta and the "Race" Question in an Eighteenth-Century Manuscript on Mexico and the Philippines

37 Images of Dress as Race-Making Strategy in the Spanish Colonial Philippines.

38 The Multiethnic Artists and Artisans of the Spanish Pacific: Navigating Early Modern Race

39 Writing Anti-Colonial Resistance and Transculturation in the Early Modern Spanish Pacific: Letters to the King of Spain from Chinese Communities in Manila

40 The Arrival of the "Southern Barbarians": The Europeans and the Other Foreign Others in the Early Modern Japanese Nanban Screens

41 Re-Signifying of Ritual Practices in Early Modern Nagasaki: The Suwa Festival and the Christian Procession of Corpus Christi

42 Early Modern Korean Descriptions of Enslaved Black Africans: A Case Study

43 Balancing Act, Woman Passing: Transitions within the Colonial Image in the Hispanic Philippines

44 Mapping Race or Nation in the Kingdom of Hawai'i

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-30864-3

1-04-031618-2

9781003308645

OCLC:

1479724606

Publisher Number:

CIPO000190499