The Routledge companion to race in early modern artistic, material, and visual production

Abstract

"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. The organization of the book moves chronologically, taking a conceptual and thematic framework. This collection will provide a spectrum of object-based case studies of artistic production-objects and object-types-from six continents between the 1400s to 1800s. Contributions take an art historical approach characterized by close analysis of form, function, and meaning, with a particular focus on questions of cross-cultural dialog and provenance. Additionally, there is an emphasis on material culture. The book will be of interest to scholars working in African diaspora studies, art history, visual culture, material culture, Indigenous studies, Renaissance studies, early modern studies, and race and racism studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Part II. Indigeneity and early decolonial materials in Abya Yala and Turtle Island -- Visions of maize, race and censorship in early colonial Mexico / Martín Vega -- The town of Mixcoac and its neighborhoods: notes on its Nahua foundation / Antonio Augusto de Paz Palacios -- Corn is blood: pasta de caña de maiz as P'urehépecha survivance / Dominique E. Polanco -- In the necklace: The Historia de Tlaxcala's colonial representation of Kuskatan / Edward Anthony Polanco -- Case studies of the colonial chapels of multiethnic Yucatec neighborhoods / María de Guadalupe Suárez Castro -- Dancing bodies in the Maya highlands: the colonial-period murals of Chajul, Guatemala / Victor Castillo and Jarosław Źrałka -- The bind of Andean ethnicity: textile cranial modification and the stuff of social inequality / Kyle Marini -- Beyond race consensus: self-representation and indigenous authority in the coat of arms of the Cacique Mayor Sancho Hacho de Velasco / Catalina Andrango-Walker -- Ambiguous race in early modern Quito sculpture / Esteban Crespo -- Race and visions of salvation in the colonial Andes / Yelsy Hernández Zamora -- Tracing Cáhita indigenous architectural agency in Jesuit mission churches of northwest Mexico, 1591-1767 / Cristina Urias-Espinoza -- Sovereign stitches: indigenous body arts on Turtle Island / Gloria Bell -- Itom Hiak Noki: you can find strength in our words / Anabel Galindo. Part III. Transpacific contestations and reversals -- Juana Manahin: the exemplary Christian Tagalog heiress (d.1691) / Regalado Trota José -- Diabolical scriptworlds and the visuality of early moderns multilingualism in the Spanish Philippines / Marlon James Sales -- Indigenous datus' constructions of colonial enslavement in the Philippines of Spain's transpacific West / Nicholas C. Sy -- "What thing is an Indian?" casta and the "race" question in an eighteenth-century manuscript on Mexico and the Philippines / Ernest Rafael Hartwell -- Images of dress as race-making strategy in the Spanish colonial Philippines / Florina H. Capistrano-Baker -- The multiethnic artists and artisans of the Spanish Pacific: navigating early modern race / Diego Javier Luis -- Writing anti-colonial resistance and transculturation in the early modern Spanish Pacific: letters to the King of Spain from Chinese communities in Manila / Yangyou Fang -- Ther arrival of the "Southern barbarians": the Europeans and the other foreign others in the early modern Japanese nanban screens / Haruko Wakabayashi -- Re-signifying of ritual practices in early modern Nagasaki: the Suwa festival and the Christian procession of Corpus Christi / David Rivera-Mosquera -- Early modern Korean descriptions of enslaved Black Africans: a case study / You-Jin Kim -- Balancing act, woman passing: transitions within the colonial image in the Hispanic Philippines / Patrick Flores -- Mapping race or nation in the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi / Stacy L. Kamehiro. Introduction. America's civilized / Nicholas R. Jones, Christina H. Lee, and Dominique E. Polanco -- Part I. Reframing Africa within Europe and the Americas -- Making sail and making race in medieval and early modern Portuguese literature / Adam Mahler -- Studying the image of the morisco: challenges and pitfalls / Borja Franco Llopis and Francisco Javier Moreno Díaz del Campo -- African women in Rembrandt's work / Stephanie Archangel -- The materiality of "dressing up" in early modern Spanish literature / Cornesha Tweede -- Reconsidering race and the colonial process: Dutch self-imaging in the long seventeenth century / Alistair Watkins -- Afro-Surinamese flag shrines: materializing group identity in the eighteenth century / Justin M. Brown -- Nzinga Ndongo's depiction in Giovanni Cavezzi's Istorica Descrizione (1687): religious conversion, slave trade, and Black otherness / Marcelo José Cabarcas Ortega -- Convict labor, slavery, and race in the Strait of Magellan: the case of an anonymous manuscript in Elizabethan England / Carmen Channing-Eberhard -- Viewing Gloster: the visual culture of "runaway" advertisements in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Emma Pearce -- Black matter: Assegais in Provincia de Venezuela / Guillermo Pupo Pernet -- Visualizing Black knighthood in early modern Iberia: João de Sá, the African knight of Santiago in Chafariz d'el rei / Héctor Linares -- How to tame your dragon: Saint Martha, hechicería, and Afro-Catholic expressive culture in New Spain / Nathalie Miraval -- Visions of dignified Blackness: labor and sanctity in Úrsula de Jesús' spiritual diary / María Alejandra Peñuela Hoyos -- Constructing racial identity and power in music, ceremonial practices, and indigenous instruments in early modern African kingdoms / Janie Cole -- Resonances of African baroque among New Spanish nuns / Cesar D. Favila -- Blackness, performance, and individual subjectivity between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Emily Wilbourne -- Beyond "this line": visualizing Eleno de Céspedes / Sophia Núñez -- Afro-Brazilian religious architecture and art / Miguel A. Valerio -- The art of erasure: the restoration and conservation of a portrait of une Femme du Couleur Libre from antebellum New Orleans / Lucia Olubunmi R. Momoh.