Includes bibliographical references and index.

Through an-other's eyes : white Canadian artists--Black female subjects -- Racing childhood : representations of black girls in Canadian art -- Slavery, portraiture, and the colonial limits of Canadian art history -- The fruits of resistance : reading portrait of a Negro slave on the sly -- Tying the knot : Black female slave dress in Canada -- Coloured nude : fetishization, disguise, dichotomy -- The "hottentot venus" in Canada : modernism, censorship, and the racial limits of female sexuality -- White marble, Black bodies, and the fear of the invisible Negro : -- Signifying blackness in mid-nineteenth-century neoclassical sculpture -- Vénus Africaine : race, beauty, and African-ness -- Allegory, race, and the four continents : Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's les quatre parties du monde soutenant la sphere céleste -- Conclusion : whiteness as collective narcissism, towards a new vision.