Routledge Research in Art and Race
About the Book Series
Routledge Research in Art and Race is a new series focusing on race as examined by scholars working in the fields of art history and visual studies. Proposals for monographs and edited collections on this topic are welcomed.
Subversive Language and Contemporary Women Artists of Color
1st Edition
By Stacy Schultz
January 05, 2026
Subversive Language and Contemporary Women Artists of Color presents the intersection of language and the female body in performance art, photography, film, and video since the 1970s. Historically, conceptual art’s use of text juxtaposed with image offered a unique entry point into analyzing how ...
Whiteness and the Visual Appropriation of Race in 1980s Britain
1st Edition
By Stephanie Polsky
October 14, 2025
This volume delves into the complex topic of race relations in 1980s Britain by examining the concept of ‘whiteness’ and how it was portrayed visually in popular art and mass media. Chapters explore pivotal moments in which the appropriation of race occurred during this critical decade as they ...
Blackness, Symbolism, and American Modernism: Class, Race, Gender, and Sexuality
1st Edition
By Lori Nel Johnson
April 28, 2025
In this book, Lori Nel Johnson examines the work of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), Meta Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), and F. Holland Day (1864-1933) in relation to the development of modernism during the turn of the century, and the official narratives surrounding this movement. While Tanner and ...
Skin Color and Whiteness in Contemporary Art
1st Edition
By Helen Westgeest
April 28, 2025
This study demonstrates the significance of using contemporary art in scholarly debates about cultural aspects of skin, in particular “whiteness” as a phenomenon that is both overly visible and invisible. There is a need for a study of these artists’ strategies, which consist of drawing attention ...
African American Artists Performing for the Camera After 1970: Against Transparency
1st Edition
By Martyna Ewa Majewska
March 26, 2025
This study demonstrates how African American artists active since the 1970s have instrumentalized performance for the camera to intervene in existing representations of Black and Brown people in America and beyond. Majewska argues that producing carefully designed photographs, films, and videos via...
The Visual Dynamics of Art, Black Care, and Ethics in South African Art
1st Edition
By Raél Jero Salley
February 18, 2025
This book interprets relationships between art and ethics in the context of contemporary South African art. Nearly three decades after inaugurating political freedom in a democratic form, the infrastructure of South Africa faces palpable issues and challenges to the social fabric. The social ...
Imaging Migration in Post-War Britain: Artists of Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese Heritage
1st Edition
By Beccy Kennedy-Schtyk
October 07, 2024
This book examines the artistic practices of a range of British-based artists of East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese) heritage to consider the social, political and cultural effects of migration or diaspora on their creative production. Beccy Kennedy-Schtyk demonstrates three themes...
Animality and Humanity in French Late Modern Representations of Black Femininity
1st Edition
By Elodie Silberstein
October 04, 2024
This volume examines the evolution of the depictions of black femininity in French visual culture as a prism through which to understand the Global North’s destructive relationship with the natural world. Drawing on a broad spectrum of archives extending back to the late 18th century – paintings, ...
The Afro-Descendant Woman in Latin American Diasporic Visual Art
1st Edition
By Rosita Scerbo
July 05, 2024
By studying multiple cultural expressions of Blackness throughout different regions of the Americas, the chapters of this book consider the relationship that social and historical processes such as sovereignty and colonialism have on cultural productions made by and about Black Latin American women...
Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton
May 27, 2024
This book examines Afrofuturism in African American art, focusing specifically on images of black women and how those images expand the discourse of representation in visual culture of the United States. This volume defines a visual language of Afrofuturism that includes materiality, temporality, ...
Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia: Vertiginous Exchange
1st Edition
By Natasha Eaton
January 29, 2024
Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia questions what are ideas of vertiginous collecting, art-making and museums as expanded fields, including wonder houses and missionary museums (or museobuses) in Britain and South Asia. If the historiography of British India has privileged photography ...
Digital Mapping and Indigenous America
1st Edition
Edited
By Janet Berry Hess
May 31, 2023
Employing anthropology, field research, and humanities methodologies as well as digital cartography, and foregrounding the voices of Indigenous scholars, this text examines digital projects currently underway, and includes alternative modes of "mapping" Native American, Alaskan Native, Indigenous ...