In the nineteenth century, paying to see living foreign people perform was a popular phenomenon in Europe. Paradoxically, few traces of these exhibitions remain today. However, they created a lasting legacy by shaping public attitudes toward ethnic differences. I will analyze the diary of Abraham Ulrikab who left the only source produced by one of the persons exhibited. By doing this, I laid bare how whiteness was built on a set of cultural practices, that have been unnamed but that nonetheless are part of a process of domination. Bodies conveyed meanings that were devised from an invisible position, a zero-point, a marker, against which difference was measured. Hence, the bodies were part of long duration phenomenon that started in London ...
Under the shadow of slavery, skin color played a vital role in determining social relations within c...
Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies offers a new comprehension of colonial history from below by taki...
This article reflects on the inclusion of human beings in the colonial representations of the great...
This article is part of a themed issue of "Ricerche storiche" with the title "Esposizioni Universali...
The study of living ethnic expositions in Italy in the nineteenth and twentieth century allows some ...
The aim of this article is to study the living ethnological exhibitions. The main feature of these m...
World fairs and exhibitions served as important venues for empires to showcase their industrial and ...
The present contribution concerns the European representation of the colonized world within universa...
At the turn of the 20th century, exotic shows as a form of displaying otherness gained wide pop...
The manipulation of the image of Afro-descendants in XIX century travel narratives accounts for cert...
Over the past twenty years international and universal world expositions have been extensively resea...
Under the shadow of slavery, skin color played a vital role in determining social relations within c...
Getting off track? Living exhibitions of Sámi in Europe and America. Abstract: During the nineteenth...
In August 1877, fourteen Africans from Nubia were exhibited among giraffes, camels and elephants fo...
This article was funded by the Standard Bank Derek Cooper Africa Scholarship.The 1924–25 British Emp...
Under the shadow of slavery, skin color played a vital role in determining social relations within c...
Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies offers a new comprehension of colonial history from below by taki...
This article reflects on the inclusion of human beings in the colonial representations of the great...
This article is part of a themed issue of "Ricerche storiche" with the title "Esposizioni Universali...
The study of living ethnic expositions in Italy in the nineteenth and twentieth century allows some ...
The aim of this article is to study the living ethnological exhibitions. The main feature of these m...
World fairs and exhibitions served as important venues for empires to showcase their industrial and ...
The present contribution concerns the European representation of the colonized world within universa...
At the turn of the 20th century, exotic shows as a form of displaying otherness gained wide pop...
The manipulation of the image of Afro-descendants in XIX century travel narratives accounts for cert...
Over the past twenty years international and universal world expositions have been extensively resea...
Under the shadow of slavery, skin color played a vital role in determining social relations within c...
Getting off track? Living exhibitions of Sámi in Europe and America. Abstract: During the nineteenth...
In August 1877, fourteen Africans from Nubia were exhibited among giraffes, camels and elephants fo...
This article was funded by the Standard Bank Derek Cooper Africa Scholarship.The 1924–25 British Emp...
Under the shadow of slavery, skin color played a vital role in determining social relations within c...
Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies offers a new comprehension of colonial history from below by taki...
This article reflects on the inclusion of human beings in the colonial representations of the great...