Black but human: slavery and visual arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700
- Submitting institution
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 911
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198767978
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book considers the visual representations of enslaved and liberated Africans in Spain during the Hapsburg dynasty. It is the result of 20 years of extensive and meticulous archival research on visual and textual sources in Europe and the US, unearthing a raft of new testimonies and recovering a path-breaking account of the Hispanic material culture of slavery. Religious paintings, self-portraits, sculptures, book illustrations and song lyrics provide evidence of critical and emancipatory practices by Afro-Hispanics themselves. Casting a fresh eye on the visual archive of slavery, this work disrupts and directly challenges the Anglo-Saxon dominance of Transatlantic Studies scholarship.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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