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Earle, Thomas Foster, and Kate J. P. Lowe. Black Africans in Renaissance Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
A collection of essays surveying a broad range of topics pertaining to Black persons’ representations and experiences in Europe across the 15th and 16th centuries. The works are thematically joined through an exploration of how Black people were racialized within the cultural frameworks of early modern Europe, attending mostly to social and cultural history in Portugal, Spain, and Italy. The essays vary widely in content and the volume thus intersects with a broad range of academic conversations in social history, cultural history, art history, literature, and more.
