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Assignment 4


HSY1511


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Date: 14 - 04 - 2023
Due Date: 14 - 04 - 2023
Unique number: 532481

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Question 1

Discuss how Sarah Baartman became a symbol of ideas of race held by Europeans
in the 19th century and how this promoted racial and gender discrimination.

Baartman, a Khoisan woman from South Africa, emigrated to Europe in the mid 1800s;
it's obscure whether she did so deliberately or was constrained. Showmen took her
around Europe, compelling her to sing and move before many white bystanders in an
upsetting and belittling show.

Baartman was sometimes draped in an enclosure in front of an audience while being
jabbed, pushed, and contacted while stripped in these showcases. Her bulging buttocks,
which were brought about by a disorder called steatopygia that happens normally among
individuals in dry pieces of Southern Africa, were portrayed as bizarre, Prope lecherous,
and disgusting.

She likewise had developed labia, an actual quality named a "Hottentot apron" by some.
Both became racial images, and a lot additional ladies from this locale of Africa were
pirated to Europe for white satisfaction.

Baartman’s features were exoticized in light of the fact that they varied so remarkably
from standard originations of white female excellence. As well as being condemned and
disgraced in the West, her full and stunning structure was promoted as the "most right
and impeccable sign of her race." It is difficult to reject that Baartman's picture is
established in a practice of bondage, accidental subjugation, and expansionism. The very
white look that fetishized Baartman's body as intriguing and explicitly sexual proliferated
the generalization of Individuals of color as physically wanton, prurient, and hypersexual.

While Baartman might not have been permitted to keep the cash she got for gazing at
her, the present People of color can aim after her Property body type and benefit from it.
Baartman's body, which was previously ridiculed by an Intrusive white gaze, is presently
beneficial - as long as these women are alright with being externalized.

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