"Racism. The Invention of Human Races" at Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden

Yinka Shonibare, How to blow up two heads at once (Gentlemen), 2006 © Yinka Shonibare / Courtesy Fundação Sindika Dokolo



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This exhibition investigates how these forms of racism are connected to the term “race”: a category which, while it appears to describe human differences, is in fact really used to justify political, social and cultural inequality. 

Though people all over the world look very different from one another, there is no such thing as “human races”. “Races” are an invention whose catastrophic effects have wreaked harm since the18th century. The exhibition analyses the scientific methods behind the development of this school of thought and presents images and media used to disseminate it to this day.  

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