The Face of a Thousand Faces

The Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights co-ordinates Glasgow's Black History Month programme of events.

Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights

The Face Of A Thousand Faces: Representations of Non-Whites in Western Culture
An online talk on representation of minority ethnic people

In this talk we take a whistlestop tour of depictions of non-white peoples over the last 500 years and the reoccurring themes within them, including racial pseudoscience and such dichotomies as savage/civilised and irrational/enlightened. From Renaissance engravings of the New World to Victorian paintings of the Middle East, we step into the fields of empire, science, art, gender, and politics. Scrutinising sources as varied as satire, newspapers, fine art, and modern pop culture – including Steven Spielberg’s iconic Indiana Jones – by the end of this talk, you’ll be looking at the media you consume with a critical eye, noticing how imperial legacies continue to shape representations of race today.

Ruka is currently reading history at Oxford University and recently participated in an Oxford University internship with Museums and Galleries Edinburgh where she looked into legacies of Slavery and Colonialism in our collection

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