Africans in the Americas were first visually recorded by tlacuiloque, or indigenous artist-scribes, in mid-sixteenth-century Central Mexican manuscripts such as Diego Durán’s History, the Codex Telleriano-Remensis, and the Codex Azcatitlan. These figures, while often peripheral to the central narrative and never mentioned specifically by name, are nevertheless rendered as active agents in the shaping of a new colonial society. The article examines these images of Africans to reveal their ethnographic complexity and the development of concepts of alterity in the early contact period.

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墨西哥手稿和美洲非洲人的第一批图像

美洲的非洲人首先由 tlacuiloque 或土著艺术家抄写员在 16 世纪中期的墨西哥中部手稿中进行了视觉记录，例如 Diego Durán 的历史、Codex Telleriano-Remensis 和 Codex Azcatitlan。这些人物虽然经常处于中心叙事的外围，并且从未具体提及姓名，但仍被视为塑造新殖民社会的积极推动者。本文考察了这些非洲人的形象，以揭示他们在早期接触时期的人种学复杂性和他异性概念的发展。