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Who Was Sara Baartman?

Who Was Sara Baartman?

I just heard about this woman. Her story and the mistreatment she received will break your heart. Please follow the link provided below. No one should ever be treated like she was. There are many others who suffer and have suffered because of another human. We should be aware of the stuff that goes on behind closed doors and the things going on right around us.

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Saratjie Baartman VS Kim Kardashian

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Discuss this statement using the stories of Sarah Baartman, Joseph Merrick and Ota Benga.

Discuss this statement using the stories of Sarah Baartman, Joseph Merrick and Ota Benga.

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via @bet: #TheNewYorkTimes came under fire recently for labeling #SarahBaartman, an enslaved woman from South Africa known for her curvy proportions and exaggerated buttocks in the 1800s, "a #KimKardashian of another era." One of the publication's theater critics, Ben Brantley, penned a review on Venus, an Off-Broadway revival of the play chronicling Baartman's life. #Baartman, also known as the #HottentotVenus, was forced to perform in sideshows and #freakshows in Europe at the time, but eventually moved to France where she reportedly died due to an impoverished lifestyle. After her passing, her remains were preserved, dissected and displayed for public viewing up to the 1970s. Social media rightfully took massive offense to Brantley's comparison of Baartman's natural physique and inhumane treatment to Kim Kardashian's allegedly surgically enhanced behind and outwardly privileged lifestyle. His problematic piece opens with the polarizing words, "Attention, please, those of you whose greatest ambition is to acquire the traffic-stopping body of Kim Kardashian. There is a less drastic alternative to costly and dangerous buttocks implants." In addition to the upsetting opening, Brantley went on to say that Baartman was "complicit in her own exploitation," and he trivialized her experience as an enslaved and victimized woman, claiming that her body would not be that unattainable, today.

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Knowledge is power... #sarabaartman #BounceDatAzz Englishmen and women paid to see Sara’s half naked body displayed in a cage that was about a metre and half high. She became an attraction for people from various parts of Europe. During her time with Dunlop and Hendrik Cezar, the campaign against slavery in Britain was in full swing and as a result, the treatment of Baartman was called into question. Her “employers”� were brought to trial but faced no real consequences. They produced a document that had allegedly been signed by Sara Baartman and her own testimony which claimed that she was not being mistreated. Her ‘contract’ was, however, amended and she became entitled to ‘better conditions’, greater profit share and warm clothes. After four years in London, in September #1814, she was transported from England to France, and upon arrival Hendrik Cezar sold her to Reaux, a man who showcased animals. He exhibited her around Paris and reaped financial benefits from the public’s fascination with Sara’s body. He began exhibiting her in a cage alongside a baby rhinoceros. Her “trainer”� would order her to sit or stand in a similar way that circus animals are ordered. At times #Baartman was displayed almost completely naked, wearing little more than a tan loincloth, and she was only allowed that due to her insistence that she cover what was culturally sacred. She was nicknamed “#Hottentot Venus”�. Her constant display attracted the attention of George Cuvier, a naturalist. He asked Reaux if he would allow Sara to be studied as a science specimen to which Reaux agreed. As from March 1815 Sara was studied by French anatomists, zoologists and physiologists. Cuvier concluded that she was a link between animals and humans. Thus, Sara was used to help emphasise the stereotype that Africans were oversexed and a lesser race. 🔴 #SaraBaartman #SarahBaartman #Kingcagoent

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She was displayed nude or bedecked in animal skins with accoutrements--spears and bones--that her handlers thought fitting for a ‘Hottentot,’ as her people were disparagingly called by Europeans’

Washington 84

“Performance as a means of disappearing the self; allowing the performance to eclipse the appearance of the self. “ (Dolan 153)

What happens when the subject’s body is eclipsed by the narrative and performance of the imagined character? Using Dolan’s quote how do we locate Baartman in relationship the Venus Hottentot?

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