Cultural Identity Questions
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The video The Life and Times of Sara Baartman – The Hottentot Venus demonstrates the emic views of the creators of the video toward their subject as well as the emic viewpoint of the British and French audiences who came to see Sara. The makers of the video do not view Sara as a freak, a woman from the Khoi Khoi village of South Africa who was taken to London and used as a symbol of racial inferiority and black female sexuality. The exhibitors of Sara see her in this manner but the makers of this documentary shows us the emic viewpoint of the French and British audiences who came to see Sara. While many of them, too, viewed her as a freak, a black hottentot, and a primitive sexual presence, others rebelled against her exploitation. Abolitionists of the era were outraged and wages an extracted court battle to have Sara freed from her exhibitors, even though their case was unsuccessful. Sara remained little more than a scientific object to her exhibitors, one they needed in order to reinforce their own self-interests and theories on
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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