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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A seminal and ground-breaking volume,
Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World will prove to be of immense interest to students of Art History, Philosophy, and Race Relations. While also available for students, academia, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subjects covered,
Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World is an exceptionally impressive and unreservedly recommended addition to professional, community, college, and university library Art History and Philosophy Criticism collections, and supplemental Cultural History curriculum studies lists." * Midwest Book Review *
Table of ContentsForeword- by Ayanna Thompson and Daniel Greene
Introduction- by Lia Markey and Noémie Ndiaye
Part 1: FIGURING
Essay 1. Manuscripts and Printed Books: Book History and Race. By Brandi K. Adams and Carissa M. Harris.
Essay 2. Fashioning Racial Materiality in Nicolas de Nicolay’s Representations of Jews. By M. Lindsay Kaplan and Dana E. Katz.
Note From the Field 1. “Touching each book”: Demystifying Special Collections in Community. By Analú María López.
Exhibition Catalog: “Seeing Race Before Race.” Part 1: Figuring. Entries 1-14.
Part 2: MAPPING
Essay 3. Geographies of Race: Constructions of Constantinople/Istanbul in the Western European Imaginary. By Roland Betancourt and Ambereen Dadabhoy.
Essay 4. Race, Empire, and Cartography. By Ricardo Padrón and Risa Puleo.
Note From the Field 2. Displaying Black Art in the Medieval Galleries at The Met Museum. By Andrea Myers Achi.
Exhibition Catalog: “Seeing Race Before Race.” Part 2: Mapping. Entries 15-26.
Part 3: PERFORMING
Essay 5. Back Bending Labor, Savage Dances, Pious Stances: Race in Motion between Africa and the Americas. By Elena FitzPatrick Sifford and Cécile Fromont.
Note From the Field 3. Bringing Premodern Critical Race Consciousness to Shakespeare’s Globe. By Farah Karim-Cooper.
Exhibition Catalog: “Seeing Race Before Race.” Part 3: Performing. Entries 27-42.
Interview. On Early Modern Critical Race Studies and Critical Indigenous Studies. By Kim F. Hall, Scott Manning Stevens, and L. Lehua Yim.
Glossary
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index
