This work gathers papers from a panel at the 2013 College Art Association Conference. The panel, titled “Representations of ‘Race’ in Iberia and the Ibero-American World,” was sponsored by the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies. Contributors are US-based scholars in history, Christian art, art history, and Chicano studies. Some specific topics discussed include the Black Madonna of Montserrat, early modern Spanish polychrome sculpture, albinism and spotted blacks in the 18th-century Atlantic world, promoting Brazil in 19th-century US media, and race and the historiography of colonial art. The book includes a wealth of black and white historical and contemporary photos, illustrations, and art. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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.
