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Ndiaye, Noémie, and Lia Markey, eds. Seeing Race before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World. Tempe: ACMRS Press, 2023.
This volume explores the many ways that race and racial thinking are represented in the visual culture of premodern times, particularly between the 1300s to the 1800s. It explores the visual manifestations of the “racial matrix” across the medieval and early modern era through transnational and multilingual geographies. Contributors aim to debunk claims that “race did not exist” prior to the Enlightenment by incorporating vast visual archives from different centuries.