Answer to Question #270655 in History for Lerato

Question

Discuss how Sarah Bartman became a symbol of ideas of race held by Europeans in the 19th century, and how this promoted racial and gender discrimination

Answer 1

Sarah Baartman represents the extent to which White supremacists have infiltrated Black space and body in South Africa. As a Black woman, she was used, paraded, penetrated, discarded, objectified, and violated in a variety of ways.