Cécile Fromont — A reading list
racialization and visualization in the early modern Atlantic world
Issue 07 — Fall 2020 — Session 02 —
Contemporary Pasts
By Cécile Fromont | Published on October 21, 2020
By Cécile Fromont | Published on October 21, 2020
The readings below investigate the entanglements between racialization and visualization in the early modern Atlantic world. Blackness (biological, spiritual, legal, and social) was (and is) an eminently visual problem and image-makers have played an integral role in its definition and served on the front lines of its transformation from trope to fact. When and how does representation cross over to violence? What are the ethical and moral implications of images crossing the fine line between metaphor and prescriptive tool?
Brewer-García, Larissa. “Imagined Transformations: Color, Beauty, and Black Christian Conversion in Seventeenth-Century Spanish America.” In Envisioning Others: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia and Latin America, pp. 111–141. Brill, 2016.
Fracchia, Carmen. ‘Black But Human’: Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480–1700. Oxford University Press, USA, 2019.
Lafont, Anne. L’art et la race. L’Africain (tout) contre l’œil des Lumières. Presses du réel (Les), 2019.
Lara, Silvia Hunold. “Customs and Costumes: Carlos Julião and the image of Black Slaves in late eighteenth-century Brazil.” Slavery & abolition 23, no. 2 (2002): 123–146.
