Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932 Williams Lyneise E.
Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932 examines an understudied visual language used to portray Latin Americans in mid-19th to early 20th-century Parisian popular visual media. It…
Specifikacia Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932 Williams Lyneise E.
Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932 examines an understudied visual language used to portray Latin Americans in mid-19th to early 20th-century Parisian popular visual media. It charts how the term Latinize was introduced to connect France's early 19th-century endeavors to create Latin America-an expansion of the French empire into the Latin-language speaking Spanish and Portuguese Americas-to its perception of the people who lived there.Elites who traveled to Paris from their newly independent nations in the 1840s were denigrated in visual media, rather than depicted as equals in a developing global economy. Darkened skin, brushed onto images of Latin Americans of European descent, mitigated their ability to claim the privileges of their ancestral heritage; whitened skin, among other codes, imposed on depictions of Black Latin Americans denied their