Jezebel has already gone overboard commenting on and identifying the obvious misogyny and racial stereotyping in Sports Illustrated’s Seven Continents spread. They went through each photo, tagging them with gems such as: About these ads
Germany’s Namibian Legacy
April 10, 2012 By 7 Comments
So the Bundestag have once again refused to acknowledge that the systematic murders of four ethnic groups in Namibia between 1904 and 1908 wasn’t genocide. Late last month, March 22, the German parliament debated a motion proposed by the Left party to officially recognise the genocide which took place in Namibia between 1904 and 1908. […]
Found Objects, No. 12
March 6, 2011 By 3 Comments
Following my brief post (more a series of video clips) about African-American comedians and their ‘Africa’ jokes, blogger/musicologist Wayne & Wax alerted me to this album cover for Richard Pryor’s self-titled, debut comedy album in 1968. A few google searches later I was on the blog of Gary Burden, the cover designer, who has a post […]
The ‘Lost Bushmen’
May 13, 2010 By 3 Comments
It is still okay to create the most objectionable stereotypes about certain Africans and for it to be considered fine. An Indian soft drink company, Parle Agro, is marketing a new soft drink, called LMN, with a series of 5 TV commercial series titled “Lost Bushmen” set “… in the [Bushmen's] natural habitat of the […]
Among the Savages
February 23, 2010 By 6 Comments
I asked journalist, filmmaker and photographer Pablo Mediavilla Costa, also one of my students at The New School, to give some perspective on the Spanish reality TV series, ‘Perdidos en la tribu’ (‘Lost in the tribe’) filmed, among others, in Namibia among the San (referred to by the derogatory Bushman in the series) and the […]
HEY BOTSWANA, GIVE THE BUSHMEN A BREAK
August 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
From “The Economist,” who goes a bit overboard on how different the ways of the Bushmen (known also as the San, or Basarwa in Tswana) are, but gets the larger injustice across: When Botswana’s High Court ruled three years ago that the country’s Bushmen (also known as the San) should be allowed to live and […]
