Foreword / Ayanna Thompson and Daniel Greene
Introduction / Lia Markey and Noémie Ndiaye
Part 1: Figuring
Essay 1. Manuscripts and Printed Books: Book History and Race / Brandi K. Adams and Carissa M. Harris
Essay 2. Fashioning Racial Materiality in Nicolas de Nicolay's Representations of Jews / M. Lindsay Kaplan and Dana E. Katz
Note From the Field 1. "Touching each book": Demystifying Special Collections in Community / Analú María López
Exhibition Catalog:"Seeing Race Before Race." Part 1: Figuring. Entries 1-14
Part 2: Mapping
Essay 3. Geographies of Race: Constructions of Constantinople/Istanbul in the Western European Imaginary / Roland Betancourt and Ambereen Dadabhoy
Essay 4. Race, Empire, and Cartography / Ricardo Padrón and Risa Puleo
Note From the Field 2. Displaying Black Art in the Medieval Galleries at The Met Museum / Andrea Myers Achi
Exhibition Catalog: "Seeing Race Before Race." Part 2: Mapping. Entries 15-26
Part 3: Performing
Essay 5. Back Bending Labor, Savage Dances, Pious Stances: Race in Motion between Africa and the Americas / Elena FitzPatrick Sifford and Cécile Fromont
Note From the Field 3. Bringing Premodern Critical Race Consciousness to Shakespeare's Globe / Farah Karim-Cooper
Exhibition Catalog: "Seeing Race Before Race." Part 3: Performing. Entries 27-42
Interview. On Early Modern Critical Race Studies and Critical Indigenous Studies / Kim F. Hall, Scott Manning Stevens, and L. Lehua Yim
Glossary
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index.