A Design Research on

Visual Identity Politics in an age of Cultural Diversity

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Black Pete is Blackface

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

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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

Banania Bloodorange cheese chocolate coffee exotic foods licorice Nutella products from the colonies race as a commodity slavery Syrup waffle

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Black Pete is Blackface

White Master and Black Servant

degradation Jan Schenkman noble savage servant slavery Stuart Hall

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Huey's Re-Mix

Huey’s Re-Mix 2018: I am Queen Mary

Black Panther Party for Self-defence colonialism Copenhagen Denmark Huey P. Newton Jeannette Ehlers La Vaughn Belle slavery Virgin Islands West 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 experience Dick Gregory James Baldwin racism slavery

Encyclopedia of —isms

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Race-ism

The construct of race

Racism (institutional, systemic, scientific)

…“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

criminalization Noam Chomsky racism Ronald Reagan slavery United States War on Drugs

Institutional Racism

All Lives Matter: 1800s Edition by Anthony McPherson

All Lives Matter Anthony McPherson Black Lives Matter blackface poetry slavery white privilege

All Lives Matter: 1800s edition

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Incomplete timeline of human classification

The construct of race

2015 — Pyramid of Whiteness

Atlanta Black Star class classification dichotomous thinking or 'with us or against us'Pyramid race religion slavery W.A.S.P.

Racial Hierarchy. W.A.S.P. = White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

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The Mammy

Aunt Jemima Siropbottle

Aunt Jemima black Donald Bogle female housemaid Mammy race as a commodity slavery stereotype submissive

Found in Vancouver (CA). December 2013

Huey's Re-Mix

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

colonialism Denmark Huey P. Newton Jeannette Ehlers slavery

Promotional image for performance Whip it Good by Jeannette Ehlers

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Incomplete timeline of human classification

The construct of race

19C/21C — Money and Race

class classification cultural heritage history Matthew Cooke race race as a cultural/social construct slavery The New Jim Crow United States

Source: People’s history of the United States

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Incomplete timeline of human classification

1864 — Types of the Human Race

classification male centered race slavery Southern states United States white centered

Designed by K.J. Stewart

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Incomplete timeline of human classification

1472 — T & O Map

bible classification continent geography monogenism racism slavery

Designed by Guntherus Ziner

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