On the longevity of visual colonial stereotyping and its influence on twenty-first-century societal and identity debates
This paper engages with current societal identity debates related to select postcolonial southern African circles, whose European origins can partially be traced back to the creation of the colonial photography genre. The contemporary visualisation of non-white Africans in the European landscape is...
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This paper engages with current societal identity debates related to select postcolonial southern African circles, whose European origins can partially be traced back to the creation of the colonial photography genre. The contemporary visualisation of non-white Africans in the European landscape is linked to a genre that was born in the times of High Imperialism. As a child of its time, colonial photography laid the foundation for both racist and racial depiction patterns of certain African peoples and what their supposed traits and looks were from the coloniser’s point of view, thereby creating seeing patterns. Until today, social debates and political movements are linked to the visualisation of non-white peoples. This project is about the historical muting of sub-Saharan Africa through stereotypical images and its links to the shaping and maintenance of postcolonial identity debates concerning racialised visualisation traditions in Europe. This repetitive visual blinding is another form of colonial aggression by constantly perpetuating certain image(rie)s and thereby facilitating colonial mentalities. Examples presented below show how far-reaching the colonial photographic stereotypes are by not limiting the scope of seeing traditions to photographs. Instead, other areas of visible everyday spaces like street names, monuments, statues, lawsuits or book covers are included.
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| spelling | doaj.art-cac8097a0df244718cc5ca681916b3c02023-09-19T06:07:21ZengUniversidade Estadual de LondrinaAntíteses1984-33562023-09-01163110.5433/1984-3356.2023v16n31p326-353On the longevity of visual colonial stereotyping and its influence on twenty-first-century societal and identity debatesDiana Miryong Natermann This paper engages with current societal identity debates related to select postcolonial southern African circles, whose European origins can partially be traced back to the creation of the colonial photography genre. The contemporary visualisation of non-white Africans in the European landscape is linked to a genre that was born in the times of High Imperialism. As a child of its time, colonial photography laid the foundation for both racist and racial depiction patterns of certain African peoples and what their supposed traits and looks were from the coloniser’s point of view, thereby creating seeing patterns. Until today, social debates and political movements are linked to the visualisation of non-white peoples. This project is about the historical muting of sub-Saharan Africa through stereotypical images and its links to the shaping and maintenance of postcolonial identity debates concerning racialised visualisation traditions in Europe. This repetitive visual blinding is another form of colonial aggression by constantly perpetuating certain image(rie)s and thereby facilitating colonial mentalities. Examples presented below show how far-reaching the colonial photographic stereotypes are by not limiting the scope of seeing traditions to photographs. Instead, other areas of visible everyday spaces like street names, monuments, statues, lawsuits or book covers are included. https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses/article/view/47711PostcolonialismStereotypingVisual HistoryWhitenessAfrican History |
| spellingShingle | Diana Miryong Natermann On the longevity of visual colonial stereotyping and its influence on twenty-first-century societal and identity debates Antíteses Postcolonialism Stereotyping Visual History Whiteness African History |
| title | On the longevity of visual colonial stereotyping and its influence on twenty-first-century societal and identity debates |
| title_full | On the longevity of visual colonial stereotyping and its influence on twenty-first-century societal and identity debates |
| title_fullStr | On the longevity of visual colonial stereotyping and its influence on twenty-first-century societal and identity debates |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the longevity of visual colonial stereotyping and its influence on twenty-first-century societal and identity debates |
| title_short | On the longevity of visual colonial stereotyping and its influence on twenty-first-century societal and identity debates |
| title_sort | on the longevity of visual colonial stereotyping and its influence on twenty first century societal and identity debates |
| topic | Postcolonialism Stereotyping Visual History Whiteness African History |
| url | https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses/article/view/47711 |
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