... The second chapter contends that the arrangement and interpretation of Indigenous arts and material culture at the Vatican Missionary Exposition and in its official magazine, the Rivista Illustrata, served the goal of rendering Indigenous nations as static. It provides a detailed discussion...

... The third chapter, focuses on missionary viewpoints. Dioramas and games at the Vatican Missionary Exposition, created by missionaries, constitute the visual evidence of the exposition's attempt to present itself as a “window on the world.” However, as the chapter argues, the exposition...

... The fourth chapter considers how cultural belongings made using Indigenous methods and hands resonate beyond the colonial space of the Vatican Museums. Although missionaries and pope Pius XI considered them as silent markers of missionary progress because of their removal from Indigenous...

... The book closes with an epilogue about Antonio Martin Fernando (1864-1949), an Aboriginal Australian man who protested settler colonialism at the entrance to the Vatican Missionary Exposition of 1925 by giving political leaflets to visitors. Although Fernando may have thought of himself...

... The appendix includes two letters the author wrote to pope Francis and Justin Trudeau, prime minister of Canada, in the effort to access Indigenous archival materials and belongings at the Vatican. Her appeals for access were turned down by the Vatican. stolen Indigenous belongings closed...

... This essay argues against the tendency of advocates for sex and justice to divide their movements up into separate, tightly enclosed, and isolated silos. It endorses instead what Vatican officials call a “gender agenda.” The Vatican sees a tight connection between and among all the components...

... The introduction tells the story of the author's first visit to the Vatican Museums and encounter with some of the Indigenous cultural belongings from Turtle Island, taken from communities and then displayed at the 1925 Vatican Missionary Exposition. The author describes visiting Vatican City...

... Vatican feminism sexual rights social justice gender ...

... Vatican feminism sexual rights social justice gender ...

... Indigenous methods autoethnography Vatican archives document suppression ...

... Vatican Missionary Exposition missionaries dioramas photography world's fairs ...

... Indigenous representation transnational artists Vatican collections neoclassical art settler colonialism ...

...Resistance This essay argues against the tendency of advocates for sex and justice to divide their movements up into separate, tightly enclosed, and isolated silos. It endorses instead what Vatican officials call a “gender agenda.” The Vatican sees a tight connection between and among all...

... prisoners. Supreme Court prison administrative law Prison Rape Elimination Act LGBT prisoners This essay argues against the tendency of advocates for sex and justice to divide their movements up into separate, tightly enclosed, and isolated silos. It endorses instead what Vatican officials...

... The first chapter establishes historical precursors to the Vatican Missionary Exposotopm by placing the sculptures and life experiences of Ferdinand Pettrich, a white German artist, into productive comparison with those of Edmonia Lewis, an Ojibwa and African American artist. By assessing...

... The hierarchy of Cuba’s Catholic Church slowly adjusted to worldwide progressive currents of the 1960s, such as the Second Vatican Council, while in 1975 Fidel characterized Cuba as an “Afro-Latin” country committed to global anticolonial struggles. The 1985 publication of Fidel and Religion...

... and had reformed. As the novel opens, he has collected an archive of the atrocities in the Mediterranean zone and is bringing them to Rome to sell to the Vatican archives. In addition to mapping the justice dispositif that frames the trajectory of Mirković’s experiences, this chapter suggests...

... produced political acrimony and even violence. In 1916, the Vatican granted the petition of a multiracial group of veterans of the War for Independence and recognized the Virgin as Cuba's patron saint. cabildo soldiers war national independence republic ...

..., tensions surrounding race and citizenship, sometimes expressed through proxy debates about religion, and “whitening” efforts produced political acrimony and even violence. In 1916, the Vatican granted the petition of a multiracial group of veterans of the War for Independence and recognized the Virgin...