Race Is Everything: Art and Human Difference Bindman David
Race Is Everything: Art and Human Difference Bindman David A timely and revealing look at the intertwined histories of science, art, and racism. David Bindman looks at race in general, but with…
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Race Is Everything: Art and Human Difference Bindman David
A timely and revealing look at the intertwined histories of science, art, and racism. David Bindman looks at race in general, but with particular concentration on attitudes toward and representations of people of African and Jewish descent. 'Race Is Everything' explores the spurious but influential ideas of so-called racial science in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, and how art was affected by it.
The book considers many aspects of these beliefs, including the skull as a racial marker; ancient Egypt as a precedent for Southern slavery; He argues that behind all racial ideas of the period lies the belief that outward appearance--and especially skull shape, as studied in the pseudoscience of phrenology--can be correlated with inner character and intelligence, and that these could be used to create a seemingly scientific hierarchy of races.