“Made by the Son of a Black”: José Campeche as Artist and Free Person of Color in Late Eighteenth-Century Puerto Rico
In response to the absence of a critical discussion of race within his historiography, this essay focuses on José Campeche (1751–1809) as an artist of African descent and argues that the socially and culturally inscribed constructs of race and Campeche’s lived experiences of them in late eighteenth-...
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Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2023-06-01
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Series: | Arts |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/12/4/126 |