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Historical perspectives on race
Historical perspectives on race

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Acknowledgements

This free course was conceived and led by Dr Sinead McEneaney and Dr John Slight, and written by Dr Sinead McEneaney, Dr John Slight, Dr Suki Haider, Dr Robin Mackie, Dr Anna Plassart and Lynn Berry.

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Images

Course introduction

Course image and Figure 1: © Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 2: taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Blumenbach#/media/File:Blumenbach's_five_races.JPG

Figure 3: © Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 4: Photographer: Cornelius Marion Battey

Session 1

Figure 1: © Bettmann/Contributor; Getty Images

Figure 2: © Gerald Bloncourt/Bridgeman Images

Figure 3: © Spencer Platt/Staff; Getty Images

Figure 4: taken from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toussaint_Louverture_-_Girardin.jpg

Figure 5: ‘The Mode of exterminating the Black Army, as practised by the French’. From Marcus Rainsford, An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti, 1805., taken from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Mode_of_exterminating_the_Black_Army

Figure 6: taken from: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Le_serment_des_Anc%C3%AAtres.jpg

Session 2

Figure 1: © Print Collector/Contributor; Getty Images

Figure 2: taken from: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Hottentot_Venus_Poster.png

Figure 3: (left) Alan Cordle Villegas; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/; Right: University of Capetown; https://www.news.uct.ac.za/images/userfiles/images/news/2018/2018-09-21_SarahBaartman_02.jpg

Figure 4: Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Qureshi, Sadiah (author), 2011.

Figure 5: ‘A Peek at the Natives’, Savage South Africa at Earl's Court, 1899 (pen and washes on paper); Maud, William T. (1865-1903); photograph © Michael Graham-Stewart/Bridgeman Images.

Session 3

Figure 1: © Archive PL/Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 2: Antiqua Print Gallery; Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 3: taken from: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston 6-13-1, The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860-1960: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Railway_station_Pietermaritzburg,_South_Africa_-_Winterton_Collection_of_East_African_Photographs_6-13-1.jpg

Figure 4: © Pictorial Press Ltd; Alamy Stock Photo

Session 4

Figure 1: photographer Richard Stone: © Crown Copyright: IWM

Figure 2: Three lascars of the ‘Viceroy of India’, standing behind the wheel of one of the ship's tenders: National Maritime Museum from Greenwich, United Kingdom

Figure 3: taken from: https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4427229/4427230/33/

Session 5

Figure 1: © Jean-Louis SWINERS/Contributor; Getty Images

Figure 2: © Tallandier; Bridgeman Images

Figure 3: © Jean-Pierre TARTRAT/Contributor; Getty Images

Text

Course introduction

Activity 1: Du Bois, W.E.B. (1903) The Souls of Black Folk, Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co.

Session 3

Activity 1: Gandhi, M.K. (1925-28) An Autobiography: the story of my experiments with Truth (1925-28). Navajivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad, India

Session 4

Activity 1: Manchester Guardian (1919) ‘Baton charge by the police’, Manchester Guardian, 16 June 1919, p. 9.

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