"Examines visual representations of and by persons defined as Creole, the term applied to white, Black, and mixed-race persons born in French colonies during the nineteenth century"--
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professorin the Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Enduring Truths: Sojourner's Shadows and Substance; Colossal: Engineering the Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, and Panama Canal; and Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France.