Envisioning Others: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia and Latin America /

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-361) and index.

Introduction: Race, color, and the visual in Iberia and Latin America / Pamela A. Patton -- The Black Madonna of Montserrat : an exception to concepts of dark skin in medieval and early modern Iberia? / Elisa A. Foster -- Visualizing Black sanctity in early modern Spanish polychrome sculpture / Erin Kathleen Rowe -- The color of salvation : the materiality of Blackness in Alonso de Sandoval's De instauranda Aethiopum salute / Grace Harpster -- Imagined transformations : color, beauty, and Black Christian conversion in seventeenth-century Spanish America / Larissa Brewer-Garcia -- White or Black? : albinism and spotted Blacks in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Ilona Katzew -- Making race visible in the colonial Andes / Ananda Cohen Suarez -- From Casta to Costumbrismo : representations of racialized social spaces / Mey-Yen Moriuchi -- Tropical dreams : promoting Brazil in nineteenth-century U.S. media / Beatriz E. Balanta -- The form of race : architecture, epistemology, and national identity in Fernando Chueca Goitia's Invariantes Castizos de la arquitectura española (1947) / Matilde Mateo -- Race and the historiography of colonial art / Charlene Villaseñor Black.

"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 Villaseñor Black, Larissa Brewer-García, Ananda Cohen Suarez, Elisa Foster, Grace Harpster, Ilona Katzew, Matilde Mateo, Mey-Yen Moriuchi, and Erin Kathleen Rowe"--Provided by publisher.