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The life and times of Sara Baartman [videorecording] : "The Hottentot Venus" / a film by Zola Maseko ; [present] Dominant 7, Mail & Guardian Television, France 3 and SABC 2

A documentary film of the life a Khoikhoi woman who was taken from South Africa in 1810 and exhibited as a freak across Britain. The image and ideas for "The Hottentot Venus" (particularly the ...
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The Venus Hottentot

Correspondent Karen Grigsby Bates speaks with Elizabeth Alexander, a poet and a Yale University professor of African-American studies, about the tragedy of Sarah Baartman, a young South African woman ...
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Sarah Baartman's Painful Legacy of Exploitation and Resilience

This Black History Month, we honor and remember Sarah Baartman—a name that symbolizes both the painful exploitation of Black women’s bodies and the resilience of their legacy. For centuries, Black ...
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Representation and Black womanhood : the legacy of Sarah Baartman / edited by Natasha Gordon-Chipembere

Prelude: 'I've come to take you home" / by Diana Ferrus -- Introduction: claiming Sarah Baartman: a legacy to grasp / Natasha Gordon-Chipembere -- 'Body' of evidence: Saartjie Baartmann and the ...