The Routledge Companion to Race in Early Modern Artistic, Material, and Visual Production

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 provides a spectrum of object-based case studies of artistic production-objects and object-types-from six continents between the 1400s and 1800s. Contributions take an art historical approach characterized by a 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 interest scholars working in African diaspora studies, art history, visual culture, material culture, Indigenous studies, Renaissance studies, musicology, early modern studies, decolonial studies, and race and racism studies.

Nicholas R. Jones is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. Christina H. Lee is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University. Dominique E. Polanco is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech.

Part 1 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: Joao de Sa, the African Knight of Santiago in Chafariz d'el rei 12. How to Tame Your Dragon: Saint Martha, Hechiceria, and Afro-Catholic Expressive Culture in Sixteenth-Century New Spain 13. Visions of Dignified Blackness: Labor and Sanctity in Ursula de Jesus' 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 Cespedes 18. Afro-Brazilian Religious Architecture and Art 19. The Art of Erasure: The Restoration and Conservation of the Portrait of Une femme du couleur libre Made in Antebellum New Orleans Part 2 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 cana de maiz as P'urhepecha 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 Colonial Andes 30. Tracing Cahita Indigenous Architectural Agency in Jesuit Mission Churches of Northwest Mexico, 1591-1767 31. Sovereign Stitches: Indigenous Body Arts on Turtle Island beyond the French Salon Tradition 32. Itom Hiak Noki: You Can Find Our Strength in Our Words Part 3 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 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