{"product_id":"seeing-race-before-race-visual-culture-and-the-racial-matrix-in-the-premodern-world-9780866988421","title":"Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World","description":"\u003cb\u003eExplores the deployment of racial thinking and racial formations in the visual culture of the pre-modern world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors explore the deployment of what coeditor Noémie 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 collaboration between RaceB4Race and the Newberry Library--as a starting point for an ambitious theoretical conversation between premodern race studies, art history, performance studies, book history, and critical race theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-15658655\"\u003eNoémie Ndiaye\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance S\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/20\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.90h x 8.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780866988421\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0866988424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHI\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHI040000\"\u003eMovements | Critical Theory\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-ART\"\u003eArt\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-ART006000\"\u003eCollections, Catalogs, Exhibitions | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-ART\"\u003eArt\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-ART015080\"\u003eHistory | Renaissance\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNoémie Ndiaye\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of Renaissance and Early Modern English Literature at the University of Chicago. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eScripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRacecraft: Early Modern Repertoires of Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eLia Markey\u003c\/b\u003e is director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eImagining the Americas in Medici Florence\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe New World in Early Modern Italy, 1492-1750\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance S","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44540905947373,"sku":"9780866988421","price":74.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_d3a69787-eb13-413b-8ac9-79013c4ca46e.jpg?v=1701495570","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/seeing-race-before-race-visual-culture-and-the-racial-matrix-in-the-premodern-world-9780866988421","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}