Authors: Dana Roxana Hrib, Raluca Maria Teodorescu
ISBN: 978-630-6520-30-5
The economic and political instrumentalization of racial ideology has generated warped mentalities and traumas deeply inscribed in the collective subconscious. At the level of ordinary people, from the 15th century until today, ignorance has been the main obstacle in identifying and overcoming these dysfunctions.
The first part of the catalog contains a synthetic approach to racial discrimination, from ancient ethnocentrism and the beginnings of race ideology to the doctrine of discoveries, the concept of blood purity, discrimination against the Roma and lesser-known episodes such as the case of the Herero ethnic group (considered the first genocide of the 20th c.) and the human zoos.
The second part introduces the concept of colorism or discrimination between people of the same color according to their darker or lighter shade; topics such as anti-Semitism or a different kind of whiteness are addressed, the change in the taxonomy of the Asian population from white – sunburnt to yellow, the role of colorism in the conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups.
The third part presents the catalog of works of painting and decorative art used to illustrate the volume. The selection is the result of an evaluation founding that, although the Brukenthal National Museum's European painting collection includes 1,235 works, only 16 of them, dated from the 16th to the 18th centuries, depict people originating from Africa, the Far East and Native Americans.
The fourth part contains a series of interviews with representatives of ethnic communities in Sibiu: Tiberiu Baruch, Dorin Cioabă, Zeno-Karl Pinter, Fawzia Rehejeh and Levente Serfőző.
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