An Eye on Race: Perspectives from Theater in Imperial SpainBucknell University Press, 2006 - 228 páginas Racism in the modern nation state is based on a Continental and an American model. In the Continental model, the racist differentiates the raced individual by religion. Because this raced individual is indistinguishable from the racist, a narrative is written to see that individual. In turn, in the American model the racist differentiates the raced individual based on skin color. Because the sign of difference is obvious, no story is written to justify racist thinking. By 1550, both models form part of imperial thinking in the Iberian world system. An Eye on Race: Perspectives from Theater in Imperial Spain describes these models at work in imperial Spanish theater. The study reveals how the display of blood in drama serves the Continental model and how the display of skin color serves the American model. It also elucidates how Miguel de Cervantes celebrates a subaltern aesthetic as he discards both racial paradigms. John Beusterien is Associate Professor of Spanish at Texas Tech University. |
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| 13 | |
The Whites Eye | 33 |
Blood Displays Seeing the Jew | 58 |
Skin Displays Seeing the Black | 101 |
Cervantes | 141 |
Conclusion | 172 |
Notes | 175 |
Works Cited | 195 |
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