Formation, Beyonce, and representation.
Types of Mankind (1854) What assumptions are made here about black people and white people? That blacks and whites are two mutually exclusive races. (which is obviously BS) That blacks are closer to monkeys (animals) as oposed to true humans. What purpose does this image serve? Its very obvious racist piece made to humiliate it's black audience and to perhaps teach them their place as so to speak given the context of this artwork coming from 1854. It instates a false hierarchy over races. Consider the sociohistorical context of the time this image was created. What is this image attempting to justify? Slavery, and it does this through attempting to visually dehumanise a black man by throwing implication blacks are just a middleground between assumingly the 'better' white human and chimpanzees. - So with them being emphasised as lesser, its justifiable to enslave them.