Enslaved Remains: The “Slave Boy” Inscription and the Histories of Racialized Collections

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Autor(a) principal: Roque, Ricardo
Data de Publicação: 2023
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/61436
Resumo: This essay is an analytical reflection about the traces of slavery and colonization found in the histories produced for collections of human skulls by craniologists and phrenologists in the past. It considers how enslavement becomes epistemically and politically embedded in racialized human remains, through the mediation of narrations and inscriptions on bone and paper. To this purpose, the article investigates an inscription of text – central to which is the term “slave boy” – on a skull mentioned in the private papers of a notorious nineteenth-century race scholar and skull collector, Joseph Barnard Davis. The analysis of this skull inscription and its associated documents also stimulate a reflection on how historiographical work may help us reveal and counter the legacies of these past processes today.
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title Enslaved Remains: The “Slave Boy” Inscription and the Histories of Racialized Collections
spellingShingle Enslaved Remains: The “Slave Boy” Inscription and the Histories of Racialized Collections
Roque, Ricardo
human skulls
history of race
slavery
colonialism
craniology
phrenology
title_short Enslaved Remains: The “Slave Boy” Inscription and the Histories of Racialized Collections
title_full Enslaved Remains: The “Slave Boy” Inscription and the Histories of Racialized Collections
title_fullStr Enslaved Remains: The “Slave Boy” Inscription and the Histories of Racialized Collections
title_full_unstemmed Enslaved Remains: The “Slave Boy” Inscription and the Histories of Racialized Collections
title_sort Enslaved Remains: The “Slave Boy” Inscription and the Histories of Racialized Collections
author Roque, Ricardo
author_facet Roque, Ricardo
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Roque, Ricardo
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv human skulls
history of race
slavery
colonialism
craniology
phrenology
topic human skulls
history of race
slavery
colonialism
craniology
phrenology
description This essay is an analytical reflection about the traces of slavery and colonization found in the histories produced for collections of human skulls by craniologists and phrenologists in the past. It considers how enslavement becomes epistemically and politically embedded in racialized human remains, through the mediation of narrations and inscriptions on bone and paper. To this purpose, the article investigates an inscription of text – central to which is the term “slave boy” – on a skull mentioned in the private papers of a notorious nineteenth-century race scholar and skull collector, Joseph Barnard Davis. The analysis of this skull inscription and its associated documents also stimulate a reflection on how historiographical work may help us reveal and counter the legacies of these past processes today.
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