https://doi.org/10.25058/issn.2011-2742

racial discourse

Visual assembly of black body: the case of New Grenade’s Corographic Commission

Beatriz Rodríguez bbalanta@smu.edu Southern Methodist University, Texas, USA Abstract: In this paper, I show that in the age of freedom and equality statements, the ethnographic images produced by Comisión Corográfica (a major geographic project in mid-nineteenth century Colombia) promotes and provides aesthetic tools that normalize, codify, and reify racial ideologies at a time in Colombian […]

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