“I am an African-European, born in Switzerland and my project was accomplished on a trip to Guinea Conakry. In this work, I was interested in the construction and deconstruction of the body as well as the depiction of the invisible”
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shit. that’s kinda truthy.
From Chapter five: it’s a dick thing of We Real Cool by bell hooks, pg. 68
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Human zoos existed at one point; prisons for captured Africans. Sarah Baartman was one such exhibit. Here is a caricature of the Hottentot Venus.
As was Geronimo. No, really, fucking Geronimo. He was an exhibit at the 1904 World’s Fair.
this is why i always shut down my glbt friends when they accuse me of putting minority rights before glbt rights. the closest thing a gay person has ever come to this is a dance cage at their local club; it’s not even close to being comparable.
Bolded part. So many of us need to learn this.
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Man that’s horrible what they did to her.
Shekina Walters, a 21 year old woman visiting from Jamaica, went shopping in Barbados only to get followed, teased & taunted at by the locals because of her size. She cried and hid away into a clothing store for an hour to avoid the crowds. LINK
Basically, she was minding her business whilst being hypervisible and people didn’t like it.-___________-
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Habitants et Personnifications de l’Afrique [Detail] via Olfert Dapper (1686), engraved by R. Zeeman (see full image here at Gallica.bnf.fr)
See also Jennifer Morgan, “’Some Could Suckle Over Their Shoulder’: Male Travelers, Female Bodies and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500-1770,” William and Mary Quarterly 54 (1997): 167-192.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr4br1KQZd1qzgr5io1_500.png)
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Habitants et Personnifications de l’Afrique [Detail] via Olfert Dapper (1686), engraved by R. Zeeman (see full image here at Gallica.bnf.fr)
See also Jennifer Morgan, “’Some Could Suckle Over Their Shoulder’: Male Travelers, Female Bodies and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500-1770,” William and Mary Quarterly 54 (1997): 167-192.
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“In Slave Life in Georgia, John Brown, in his as-told-to narrative, illumines this chasm between truth and the body by elaborating the role of violence and ventriloquy in enchaining slave value. In order to penetrate the simulated revelry of the trade, he painstakingly described the New Orleans slave pen in which he was held(39):
from Scenes of Subjection by Saidiya Hartman (a rare look inside the slave pens of America)
Gee, that expectation of fortitude in the face of atrocity doesn’t seem to have left the cumulative consciousness. Think about it, in TV & movies how often do you see depictions of sad black people?
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