Noémie Ndiaye is assistant professor of Renaissance and Early Modern English Literature at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race and Racecraft: Early Modern Repertoires of Blackness. Lia Markey is director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library. She is the author of Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence and coeditor of The New World in Early Modern Italy, 1492-1750.
"""In addition to twelve erudite and informative articles/essays, Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World is further enhanced for the reader with the inclusion of illustrations, a six page Glossary, a twenty-two page Bibliography, an eight page listing of the contributors and their credentials, and a seven page Index. While also available for students, academia, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subjects covered, Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World is an exceptionally impressive and unreservedly recommended addition to professional, community, college, and university library Art History and Philosophy Criticism collections, and supplemental Cultural History curriculum studies lists."" * Midwest Book Review *"