Blackness out of Place: Black Countervisuality in Portugal and Its Former Empire.

This article explores how historical narratives and aesthetic models configuring Portuguese imperial visuality produced the absented presence of Africa and its diasporas. Despite centuries of interconnected histories of colonial domination and enslavement, but also marronage and resistance, Black su...

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Publicado en:Radical History Review Vol. 2022; no. 144; pp. 106 - 131
Autor principal: Marcos, Patrícia Martins
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Duke University Press Oct2022
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        African diasporas
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