Envisioning others : race, color, and the visual in Iberia and Latin America

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    • Patton, Pamela A.

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Envisioning others : race, color, and the visual in Iberia and Latin America

edited by Pamela A. Patton

(The medieval and early modern Iberian world, v. 62)

Brill, c2016

  • : hbk.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-361) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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. Contributors are Beatriz Balanta, Charlene Villasenor Black, Larissa Brewer-Garcia, Ananda Cohen Suarez, Elisa Foster, Grace Harpster, Ilona Katzew, Matilde Mateo, Mey-Yen Moriuchi, and Erin Kathleen Rowe.

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements vii List of Illustrations viii List of Contributors xii Introduction: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia and Latin America 1 Pamela A. Patton 1 The Black Madonna of Montserrat: An Exception to Concepts of Dark Skin in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia? 18 Elisa A. Foster 2 Visualizing Black Sanctity in Early Modern Spanish Polychrome Sculpture 51 Erin Kathleen Rowe 3 The Color of Salvation: The Materiality of Blackness in Alonso de Sandoval's De instauranda Aethiopum salute 83 Grace Harpster 4 Imagined Transformations: Color, Beauty, and Black Christian Conversion in Seventeenth-Century Spanish America 111 Larissa Brewer-Garcia 5 White or Black? Albinism and Spotted Blacks in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World 142 Ilona Katzew 6 Making Race Visible in the Colonial Andes 187 Ananda Cohen Suarez 7 From Casta to Costumbrismo: Representations of Racialized Social Spaces 213 Mey-Yen Moriuchi 8 Tropical Dreams: Promoting Brazil in Nineteenth-Century us Media 241 Beatriz E. Balanta 9 The Form of Race: Architecture, Epistemology, and National Identity in Fernando Chueca Goitia's Invariantes castizos de la arquitectura espanola (1947) 266 Matilde Mateo 10 Race and the Historiography of Colonial Art 303 Charlene Villasenor Black Selected Bibliography 323 Index 362

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