9781501332371

1501332376

9781501332357

150133235X

"Bloomsbury visual arts."

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Color Plates; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The term "Latin American"; Why Paris?; Much more than primitivism; Reduced to Latin Americans; Parisian figurations of Blackness from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries; Overview of the study; Notes; Chapter 1: Playing Up Blackness and Indianness, Downplaying Europeanness; Editing Francisco Laso: Racializing Spanish and Portuguese Americans; Justified by anthropology: Quatrefages, Hamy, and the casta paintings; Latin American self-representation

The shifting rastaquouèreMaintaining anthropological interpretations in the early twentieth century; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 2: Chocolat the Clown: Not Just Black; Chocolat and Footit: Partners in contrast; Chocolat as brand image; Chocolat the contaminant; Chocolat, that special ingredient: The racially mixed object of desire; Complicating notions of minstrelsy; Representations through clothing; Sexualizing Black dandies; Assimilating the Latin; Beyond the circus; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3: Alfonso Teofilo Brown: Agency and Complications of Blackness and Europeanness

Sport and the imagined ideal male bodyBlack boxers in turn-of-the-century France; Gangly Brown; The purity and hybridity of gangly Brown; Brown the gentleman; Images of Black difference; Brown the philanthropist; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4: Figari's Blacks: Negotiating French and Latin Blackness; Figari and Paris; Contested Whiteness and the Black body; Conceptualizing regional identity; Through the anthropological gaze; Candombe as framing device; Gender and race in Candombe; Objects as markers; Figari as "naïf" painter; Increasing Latin American presence in Paris

Perceptions of Black UruguayansFigari's evolution in Paris; Contradictions and contrasts between Figari's paintings and written work; Conclusion; Notes; Coda; Manuscripts and Archives; Newspapers/Journals/Magazines; Primary Sources (Pedro Figari); Secondary Sources; Index

Art and society > France > Paris > History > 19th century.

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