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colonizing sex
Who was Sarah Baartman?
was the best known of at least two[2] South African Khoikhoi women who, due to the European objectification of their buttocks, were exhibited as freak show attractions in 19th-century Europe
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although Sarah Baartman is no longer alive, black women are still being fetishized by white people and non black PoC because of their notable big butts --> where could this fetishism of come from ?? gee maybe from the people who monetized and exploited women like Sarah Baartman who were made into "freaks" because of their phat booties
"e iconic representation of the abject, less than human, perpetually condemned
and fetishized racial body"
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Body is...
, scientific accounts and policies “further the gap
between the haves and the have nots”
Body is racialized, and through processes of scientific racism, slavery, and colonialism bodies
are differentially categorized according to phenotype, sex, class, age, location
fact of blackness, data of femininity, empiricism of racial-sexual difference
how creative works might intervene in, and nourish, our understandings of science
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Works of Ligon set stage for depictions of black women --> the unfamiliar was not welcomed and these images conjured by this white dude influenced -isms that started to increase and created a dichotomy between white (women) and black (women) --> not always just women but in this case specifically directed towards women's bodies
"Europeans found a means to articulate shifting perceptions of themselves as religiously, culturally, and phenotypically superior to those black or brown persons they sought to define" Morgan p.168
"Deviant sexual behavior reflected the breakdown of natural laws-the absence of shame, the inability to identify lines of heredity and descent. This concern with deviant sexuality, articulated almost always through descriptions of women" Morgan p. 170
"Deviant sexual behavior" is how Europeans viewed black women and their culture only because it was not the same as the "natural law" Europeans tried to enforce by policing women's bodies.
Europeans got tired of policing their own women's bodies, so they did it in another countries.
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How does colonialism inform sexual and gendered normalcies? In what ways are our current understandings of gender binaries, sexual identities, and deviance shaped by white supremacy? How do these literary historians make use of old texts to think about current issues?