So the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has an 1876 Monet painting that shows the painter’s wife wearing a kimono. Museum staff thought it would make a nice promotion to get a kimono like the one Mme.
“These displays are rooted in a lot of racism, imperialism, condescension, and sort of gawking exotification,” says Anderson. “Harrison fits right in there, but at the same time his case is ...
Rather, it was a force just as formidable: a collective of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders fighting against their ...
This presentation will analyze the paradoxical experience of female German travel writers in the long 19th century, who were able to transcend gender boundaries through their travels but also ...
These classical and mythological icons ultimately serve as a vehicle to highlight themes of workplace burnout (illustrated as the "workhorse"), a general exotification and dehumanization of the Black ...
Eiko Moon-Yamamoto (pictured) shares the role of Afong Moy with Joann Wu in “The Chinese Lady” at the Pear Theatre. Photo by Sinjin Jones. In 1834, 14-year-old Afong Moy was brought from China ...
Voices from her life expose discrimination and exotification, forcing her to confront the duality of her actions and circumstances. Part two features Shaharah’s Guyanese take on Indian diaspora ...
For Kueh, this project is personal: it traces the faultline of heritage between inherited past and internalised exotification. Having spent the past few years completing his studies at the Royal ...