Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World Ndiaye Nomie
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…
Specifikacia Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World Ndiaye Nomie
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 Nomie 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