The Invention of Racism in Color
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Overview
Between 1907 and 1909, Robert Lohmeyer (1879-1959), a German pioneer of color photography, traveled through the German colonies in Africa and portrayed their landscapes and native peoples in color for the first time, thus fulfilling a laudable purpose; but also laying the foundations for an enduring racist vision of the entire continent.
Keywords
photographic evidence
racism
african tribe
indigenous community
african village
racist stereotype
indigenous peoples
observational documentary
african colony
indigenous tribes
internalized racism
anti-indigenous racism
anti-first nations racism
photographic narrative
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