Full Description
The past is always an interpretive act from the lens of the present. Through the lens of critical race theory, the essays collected here explore new analytical models, theoretical frameworks, and methodological approaches in attempting to reimagine the European Renaissance and early modern periods in terms of global expansion, awareness, and participation. Centering race in these periods requires that we acknowledge the people against whom social hierarchies and differential treatment were directed. This collection takes Europe as its focus, but White Europeans are not centred in it and the experiences of Black Africans, Asians, Jews and Muslims are not relegated to the margins of a shared history. Situating Europe within a global context forces the reconsideration of the violence that attends the interaction of peoples both across cultures and enmired within them. The less we are attentive to the cultural interactions, cross- cultural migrations and global dimensions of the late medieval and early modern periods, the less we are forced to recognize the violence, intolerance, power struggles and enforced suppressions that attend them.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
General Editor's Preface, Marius Turda
Introduction, Kimberly Ann Coles and Dorothy Kim
1. Definitions and Representations of Race, Geraldine Heng
2. Race, Environment, Culture, Adam Miyashiro
3. Race and Religion, Dorothy Kim
4. Race and Science, Rebecca Redfern and Joseph T. Hefner
5. Race and Politics, Matthew Vernon
6. Race and Ethnicity, Kathy Lavezzo
7. Race and Gender, Dorothy Kim and Michelle M. Sauer
8. Race and Sexuality, M. W. Bychowski and Robert Sturges
9. Anti-Race, Asa Simon Mittman
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
