The Visual in Latin American History

A collection of essays examining the role of visual materials in shaping Latin American lives, historical thought, and worldmaking. Historians have long valued visual media as a source of documentation and illustration.More recently, scholars have also been turning to visual media for another purpose: to directly observe historical processes.Paintings, maps, visual narratives, graffiti, photography-these objects do not simply transmit information about events; they are events.They imbue the historical change we seek to understand. The Visual in Latin American History is a collection of essays that applies cutting-edge visual-studies methodology to the history of Central and South America and the Caribbean.Contributors focus on the visual production of postcolonial national imaginaries across Latin America-mythologies that purposely omitted Indigenous groups, African diasporic communities, and new migrants from Europe and Asia.The essays range across a vast territory, including erasure