In the wake of widespread calls to decolonize institutional narratives of cultural heritage, UMass Amherst historian Jennifer Heuer and art historian Gülru Çakmak invited articles for a special issue of the online journal H-France Salon: “Rethinking Race and Representation in Art History and Material Culture of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Francosphere.”
Published this summer, the pieces gathered in this publication—eight articles, two poems and an interview—collectively examine art historical and historical narratives that reproduce racialized and imperialist ways of seeing and organizing the world and the past. By the same token, they offer alternative pathways to reclaiming historical agency as well as reflecting on the economic and commercial aspects of representing race and colonialism.
The issue is available on the H-France Salon website. Originating in 2009, H-France Salon is a multimedia journal of French studies, including history, literature, cinema, art history, theory, and culture.
