Conférencier afro-descendant en astronomie.

Conférencier afro-descendant en astronomie.

“This is one of four offensive caricatures that use ethnicity as the context for ridiculing contemporary pseudo-science. By making the lecturer black and using racist language and style in the accompanying ‘lecture’ text, the series attacks the fashion for scientific lectures and the subjects being presented. They play on attributes then stereotypically seen as being inherent to the black population, including drunkenness, dirt, thieving, lechery and lack of education. This lecture focuses on astronomy and suggests meanings for the different signs of the zodiac behind the lecturer” (source https://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/co8014519).