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Author: Jan Nederveen Pieterse

📘 White on Black by Jan Nederveen Pieterse

White on Black offers a comprehensive visual history of Western stereotypes of black people, documenting how prejudice has been rendered in art, advertising, and everyday objects for over 200 years. The book spans medieval depictions, colonial adventures, the era of slavery and abolition, and contemporary portrayals. It examines recurring images—servants, entertainers, athletes, and mythical figures such as Sambo, Uncle Tom, Golliwog, Bamboula, and Black Peter—and analyzes how these symbols continue to reshape attitudes in multicultural societies. Through a vast collection of engravings, lithographs, posters, and commercial items, the work exposes the hidden power of caricature, humor, and parody as instruments of oppression.

First publish date: 1992

Genre: Arts & Culture/Art History

Authors: Jan Nederveen Pieterse

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