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.

The Author

Pamela A. Patton is Director of the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University. Her research has won grants from the Kress Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and the College Art Association. Her 2012 book, Art of Estrangement: Redefining Jews in Reconquest Spain (Penn State Press), earned the 2014 Eleanor Tufts Book Award from the American Society of Hispanic Art Historical Studies. Patton’s articles and essays have concerned monastic architectural sculpture, the text-image relationship in manuscripts, and the portrayal of ethnic and religious minorities in high and late medieval Iberia.