HSY1511 Assignment
4 (Answer Guide All
Questions) Semester
1 2025 - DUE May
2025
QUESTIONS WITH 100%
VERIFIED AND
CERTIFIED ANSWERS.
, HSY1511 Assignment 4 (Answer Guide All Questions) Semester 1 2025 - DUE May
2025
QUESTIONS WITH 100% VERIFIED AND CERTIFIED ANSWERS. WRITTEN IN
REQUIRED FORMAT AND WITHIN GIVEN GUIDELINES. IT IS GOOD TO USE AS A
GUIDE AND FOR REFERENCE, NEVER PLAGARIZE. Thank you and success in
your academics.
PREPARED BY DR. FRED ().
UNISA, 2025.
Contents
1. Sarah Baartman as a Symbol of 19th-Century European Racial and Gender
Discrimination ........................................................................................................................................... 1
2. Ubuntu and Its Role in European Exploration in the 19th Century ........................................ 2
3. Archaeology and History Writing in Africa: The Case of Great Zimbabwe .......................... 3
4. Enlightenment Ideas and the Abolition of Slavery in the 19th Century ................................ 4
Bibliography .............................................................................................................................................. 4
1. Sarah Baartman as a Symbol of 19th-Century European Racial and Gender
Discrimination
Sarah Baartman, a Khoikhoi woman from South Africa, became a symbol of European
racial and gender prejudices in the 19th century due to her exploitation as a spectacle in
Europe. Baartman was taken to Britain in 1810 and exhibited as the "Hottentot Venus,"
where her body was objectified and scrutinized to justify pseudo-scientific racism.
European scientists, such as Georges Cuvier, later examined her remains, reinforcing
stereotypes about African women’s bodies as "exotic" and "inferior." This
dehumanization promoted racial hierarchies by portraying Black women as hypersexual
and primitive, contrasting with European ideals of femininity and purity. Baartman’s
treatment reflected broader colonial attitudes that justified slavery and segregation by
4 (Answer Guide All
Questions) Semester
1 2025 - DUE May
2025
QUESTIONS WITH 100%
VERIFIED AND
CERTIFIED ANSWERS.
, HSY1511 Assignment 4 (Answer Guide All Questions) Semester 1 2025 - DUE May
2025
QUESTIONS WITH 100% VERIFIED AND CERTIFIED ANSWERS. WRITTEN IN
REQUIRED FORMAT AND WITHIN GIVEN GUIDELINES. IT IS GOOD TO USE AS A
GUIDE AND FOR REFERENCE, NEVER PLAGARIZE. Thank you and success in
your academics.
PREPARED BY DR. FRED ().
UNISA, 2025.
Contents
1. Sarah Baartman as a Symbol of 19th-Century European Racial and Gender
Discrimination ........................................................................................................................................... 1
2. Ubuntu and Its Role in European Exploration in the 19th Century ........................................ 2
3. Archaeology and History Writing in Africa: The Case of Great Zimbabwe .......................... 3
4. Enlightenment Ideas and the Abolition of Slavery in the 19th Century ................................ 4
Bibliography .............................................................................................................................................. 4
1. Sarah Baartman as a Symbol of 19th-Century European Racial and Gender
Discrimination
Sarah Baartman, a Khoikhoi woman from South Africa, became a symbol of European
racial and gender prejudices in the 19th century due to her exploitation as a spectacle in
Europe. Baartman was taken to Britain in 1810 and exhibited as the "Hottentot Venus,"
where her body was objectified and scrutinized to justify pseudo-scientific racism.
European scientists, such as Georges Cuvier, later examined her remains, reinforcing
stereotypes about African women’s bodies as "exotic" and "inferior." This
dehumanization promoted racial hierarchies by portraying Black women as hypersexual
and primitive, contrasting with European ideals of femininity and purity. Baartman’s
treatment reflected broader colonial attitudes that justified slavery and segregation by
