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In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, this collection - which
gathers scholars in the fields of race, ethnicity, and humor -
seems especially urgent. Inspired by Denmark's Muhammad cartoons
controversy, the contributors inquire into the role that racial and
ethnic stereotypes play in visual humor and the thin line that
separates broad characterization as a source of humor from its
power to shock or exploit. The authors investigate the ways in
which humor is used to demean or give identity to racial, national,
or ethnic groups and explore how humor works differently in
different media, such as cartoons, photographs, film, video,
television, and physical performance. This is a timely and
necessary study that will appeal to scholars across disciplines.
Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus
on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of
Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late
sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in
1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major
field of representation in Western art, slave and portraiture as
categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the
logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an
instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject.
Portraiture, on the contrary, privileged the face as the primary
visual matrix for the representation of a distinct individuality.
The essays in this volume address this apparent paradox of slave
portraits from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. They
probe the historical conditions that made the creation of such rare
and enigmatic objects possible and explore their implications for a
more complex understanding of power relations under slavery."
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