Visual Identity Politics and Remix Society
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Becky

Stereotypes

Beyoncé’s ‘Becky with the good hair’

“Even if she’s referring to another woman of color, “to critique her as a Becky is more than just like, ‘You’re a cheater.’” The insult cuts far deeper, she says: “It re-encodes her as a white Becky.”
— Rebecca Kinney

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Incomplete timeline of human classification

1798— White, Yellow and Black

Designed by Georges Cuvier, a French naturalist and zoologist, the "father of paleontology"

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2 categories

Incomplete timeline of human classification

1785 — The Outline of History of Mankind

Incomplete timeline of human classification

Multiple categories

1758 — Geographical varieties of Homo Sapiens

Linnaeus' classificatory system as described in ‘Systema Naturae’ (visualisation Mark Mulder): where geographical varieties is related to behaviour.