Histories of Art, Race and Empire: 1492-1865

Appendix on Implementing District Standards:

(B6) Students identify the role of the U.S. free enterprise system within the parameters of this course and understand that this system may also be referenced as capitalism or the free market system.

This unit addresses this requirement inherently, in that it will examine in some detail the role that early capitalist systems, such as the West India companies westward expansion, and the plantation economy, affected both Native Americans and the enslaved peoples abducted from their own nations, as well as how many of those same systems continue to affect their descendants today.

(F6) History. The student understands the characteristics and impact of the Maya, Inca, and Aztec civilizations. The student is expected to:

(A) compare the major political, economic, social, and cultural developments of the Maya, Inca, and Aztec civilizations and explain how prior civilizations influenced their development; and

(B) explain how the Inca and Aztec empires were impacted by European exploration/colonization.

These requirements will be addressed in this unit with a look at Mesoamerican art, as well as the impact that disease had on the destruction of these empires in the period after European contact.

7) History. The student understands the causes and impact of increased global interaction from 1450 to 1750. The student is expected to:

(A) analyze the causes of European expansion from 1450 to 1750;

(B) explain the impact of the Columbian Exchange;

(C) explain the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on West Africa and the Americas;

This unit will examine and analyze European expansion through this period using its artwork, as well as the impact of the Columbian Exchange on both the people of the New World and Europe.  Significant attention will also be devoted to examining the art of enslaved people in what would become the United States, as well as the Caribbean.

(8) History. The student understands the causes and the global impact of the Industrial Revolution and European imperialism from 1750 to 1914. The student is expected to:

(B) identify the major political, economic, and social motivations that influenced European imperialism;

(C) explain the major characteristics and impact of European imperialism; and

Through this unit, students will reach a better understanding of much of the reasoning for imperialism, economic, philosophical, and moral, and examine how these reasons have affected treatment of colonized people into the modern era. They will also see many of the similarities between various colonial nations in terms of how they treated the people who fell beneath their power.

End Notes

1. Tsai “‘Colonialism Is Terrible, But Pho Is Delicious’ Is a Play About Food and Ownership.” 2022
2. Straet “Digital Collections - America.” 1580
3. “The Indian Princess.”1750
4. Wilgus “Captain Cold, or Ut-ha-wah (Onondaga, ca. 1770–1845)” 1838
5. Vidal, Emeric E. “A Dance in Jamaica - YCBA Collections Search.” Undated.
6. Belisario, Isaac M.. “Sketches of character : in illustration of the habits, occupation, and costume of the Negro population, in the island of Jamaica / drawn after nature, and in lithography, by I.M. Belisario. - YCBA Collections Search.” 1837
7. . “A Haida argillite figure of a Russian sea captain Circa 1840-1870 32cm.” c. 1850
8. Hovens and Bernstein North American Indian Art: Masterpieces and Museum Collections in the Netherlands. 2015, 284
9. Blake, George. “Cigar Store (White) Man.” 1995.
10. Cigar-store Indian at the Oldest Store Museum in St. Augustine. 1969 (circa).
11. LaPena, Johnson, and Gilmore 2019, 33
12. Belisario, “Sketches of character : in illustration of the habits, occupation, and costume of the Negro population, in the island of Jamaica / drawn after nature, and in lithography, by I.M. Belisario, 11, 1837
13. “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina.”d. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
14. “Collections online | Pitt Rivers Museum.” . c. 1875
15. Woodard, American Nations
16. . “Golden Jubilee Portrait of Queen Victoria.” 1897
17. Grey, CGP. “Americapox: The Missing Plague.”
18. Ibid
19. Baldassarri, Fabrizio. “The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: Renaissance Philosophy, Magic, and Botany - JHI Blog. 2021.
20. Kipling, White Man’s Burden,  1899
21. Woodard, American Nations, 2011, 3
22. Ibid 23-33
23. Ibid 57-64
24. Ibid 65-72
25. Ibid 44-56
26. Ibid 82-91
27. Ibid 101-114
28. Ibid 216-223
29. Ibid 243-253