A Design Research on
Visual Identity Politics in an age of Cultural Diversity
POST-
slavery

Black Pete is Blackface

“…Wie stout is de roe.” a.k.a. the roots of ‘Black Pete’ lie in the devil

Austriablackconsequences of slaverydarknessdevilexecutionerheelKOZPkrampusNOSpaganPattaPiet ParrapunishmentroesatansinslaveryThe NetherlandsVincent van de Waalwinter soltice

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Black Pete is Blackface

“Wie zoet is krijgt lekkers…” a.k.a. How candy and exotic delicacies are use to display racial stereotypes

BananiaBloodorangecheesechocolatecoffeeexotic foodslicoriceNutellaproducts from the coloniesrace as a commodityslaverySyrup waffle

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Black Pete is Blackface

White Master and Black Servant

degradationJan Schenkmannoble savageservantslaveryStuart Hall

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Huey's Re-Mix

Huey’s Re-Mix 2018: I am Queen Mary

colonialismCopenhagenDenmarkHuey P. NewtonJeannette EhlersLa Vaughn BelleslaveryVirgin IslandsWest Indian
I Am Queen Mary by Danish artist Jeannette Ehlers and Virgin Islands artist La Vaughn Belle

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The construct of race

Baldwin’s Nigger — documentary, 1969

black experienceDick GregoryJames Baldwinracismslavery

Encyclopedia of —isms

R

Race-ism

The construct of race

Racism (institutional, systemic, scientific)

'people'burgerschap/citizenshipCharles V. HamiltonCLR Jamescolorembedded into cultural DNAEric WilliamsethnicitygenealogyHans Spekmanhierarchyinstitutional racismInstitutionalized RacismInternalized RacismInterpersonal RacismJay SmoothMarokkanennationalitypowerraceRace ConversationRace Forwardscientific racismslaveryStokely CarmichaelStructural RacismsubcultureTa-Nehisi CoatesWildersZihni Özdil

…“race is the child of racism, not the father. And the naming of “the people” has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy.” 
—Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the world and me, 2015

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Race-ism

Racist War on Drugs, Noam Chomsky

criminalizationNoam ChomskyracismRonald ReaganslaveryUnited StatesWar on Drugs

Institutional Racism

All Lives Matter: 1800s Edition by Anthony McPherson

All Lives MatterAnthony McPhersonBlack Lives Matterblackfacepoetryslaverywhite privilege
All Lives Matter: 1800s edition

2 categories

Incomplete timeline of human classification

The construct of race

2015 — Pyramid of Whiteness

Atlanta Black Starclassclassificationdichotomous thinking or 'with us or against us'PyramidracereligionslaveryW.A.S.P.
Racial Hierarchy. W.A.S.P. = White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

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The Mammy

Aunt Jemima Siropbottle

Aunt JemimablackDonald BoglefemalehousemaidMammyrace as a commodityslaverystereotypesubmissive
Found in Vancouver (CA). December 2013

Huey's Re-Mix

Huey’s Re-Mix 2013: Whip it good by Jeannette Ehlers

colonialismDenmarkHuey P. NewtonJeannette Ehlersslavery
Promotional image for performance Whip it Good by Jeannette Ehlers

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3 categories

Incomplete timeline of human classification

The construct of race

19C/21C — Money and Race

classclassificationcultural heritagehistoryMatthew Cookeracerace as a cultural/social constructslaveryThe New Jim CrowUnited States
Source: People’s history of the United States

5 categories

Incomplete timeline of human classification

1864 — Types of the Human Race

classificationmale centeredraceslaverySouthern statesUnited Stateswhite centered
Designed by K.J. Stewart

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3 categories

Incomplete timeline of human classification

1472 — T & O Map

bibleclassificationcontinentgeographymonogenismracismslavery
Designed by Guntherus Ziner

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