Examples Of Being Black In America

Being black in America sometimes comes with a negative representation. The dehumanization of blacks can be traced to the Europeans imperialistic society in Africa; Africans were seemed as wild children, who were savage, who had no history and cursed by God to be slaves of whites. They were represented as people who couldn’t produce intelligence, who were inferior and oversexualized because the warmer climate of Africa. One example of this representation is Sarah Baartman, she was a slave worker in Cape Town, there a doctor discovered by William Dunlop. She travel to England with the doctor who went on to display her on a freak show due to her unusually large buttocks and genital parts. “Europeans were arrogantly obsessed with their own superiority,