The editors of Visual Resources are pleased to announce the publication of a new special issue, Imaging Blackness in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Maria P. Gindhart. Below is a summary listing of the contents of the issue. For free access to the abstracts of the articles as well as Maria Gindhart's Introduction, please visit http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g901651647~db=all VISUAL RESOURCES: An International Journal of Documentation Vol. XXIV, No. 3, September 2008 (ISSN 0197-3762) TABLE OF CONTENTS 219 Editorial: On Curing Color Narrow-Sightedness 221 Murtha Baca, News from the Field BOARD-APPROVED SPECIAL ISSUE Imaging Blackness in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Maria P. Gindhart 225 Maria P. Gindhart, Introduction (FREE ACCESS) 233 Kevin Michael Scott, The "Negro Touch" and the "Yankee Trick": William Sidney Mount and the Art of Race and Ethnicity 253 Guy Jordan, Race in Transit: Intoxication and Slavery in the Art of Charles Deas 273 Peter Benson Miller, "Des couleurs primitives": Miscegenation and French Painting of Algeria 299 Catherine E. Anderson, A Zulu King in Victorian London: Race, Royalty and Imperialist Aesthetics in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain 321 Maria P. Gindhart, Cro-Magnon and Khoi-San: Constant Roux's Racialized Relief Sculptures of Prehistoric Artists REVIEW 343 Sander L. Gilman, The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West, by Larissa N. Heinrich For more information about VR and our previous publication history, please visit http://www.mindspring.com/~sundt-vr/ for the complete tables of contents and list of special issues, in addition to information about the journal, including subscriptions and special offers available to members of CAA, VRA, and AAH. Christine L. Sundt, Editor Murtha Baca, News Editor Helen Ronan, Reviews Editor -- Christine L. Sundt, Editor Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation P.O. Box 5316 Eugene, OR 97405-0316 USA phone: 541.485.1420 VR Website: http://www.mindspring.com/~sundt-vr/ csundt(at)mindspring.com or csundt(at)gmail.com __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]