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

Pamela A. Patton (PhD 1994, Boston University) is Director of the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University and the author of two books and multiple articles on medieval Iberian art, including Art of Estrangement: Redefining Jews in Reconquest Spain (Penn State, 2012).

• ContentsAcknowledgements viiList of Illustrations viiiList of Contributors xiiIntroduction: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia andLatin America 1Pamela A. Patton1 The Black Madonna of Montserrat: An Exception to Concepts ofDark Skin in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia? 18Elisa A. Foster2 Visualizing Black Sanctity in Early Modern SpanishPolychrome Sculpture 51Erin Kathleen Rowe3 The Color of Salvation: The Materiality of Blackness in Alonso deSandoval’s De instauranda Aethiopum salute 83Grace Harpster4 Imagined Transformations: Color, Beauty, and Black ChristianConversion in Seventeenth-Century Spanish America 111Larissa Brewer-García5 White or Black? Albinism and Spotted Blacks in theEighteenth-Century Atlantic World 142Ilona Katzew6 Making Race Visible in the Colonial Andes 187Ananda Cohen Suarez7 From Casta to Costumbrismo: Representations of RacializedSocial Spaces 213Mey-Yen Moriuchi8 Tropical Dreams: Promoting Brazil in Nineteenth-Century usMedia 241Beatriz E. Balanta9 The Form of Race: Architecture, Epistemology, and National Identityin Fernando Chueca Goitia’s Invariantes castizos de la arquitecturaespañola (1947) 266Matilde Mateo10 Race and the Historiography of Colonial Art 303Charlene Villaseñor BlackSelected Bibliography 323Index 362

"...All of which is to say that the parts I found especially interesting in Envisioning Others were those that delved into or at least made the reader aware of strange and surprising categories and concepts that attempted to name and control difference.” Byron Ellsworth Hamann (Ohio State University) in The Medieval Review 16.11.31"Quem se dedica à cultura visual religiosa e seu impacto no cotidiano, inclusive a relação entre a religião proposta e praticada e o sistema de racismo, vai beneficiar-se significativamente e, eventualmente, encontrar inspiração para novos projetos de pesquisa, inclusive, em relação à escolha da metodologia... Em sua totalidade, a obra é um convite ao/à cientista da religião para investigar não somente o aspecto religioso nas representações da cultura material e visual brasileira, mas também as relações entre imagem, religião e gênero ou imagem, religião e trabalho ou imagem, religião e política e outras.”Helmut Renders in Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, v. 14, n. 42, p. 670-679, abr./jun. 2016