Past Is Not Dead: Facts, Fictions, and Enduring Racial Stereotypes
By (Author) Allan Pred
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st September 2004
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
305.8009485
Paperback
304
Width 149mm, Height 229mm, Spine 28mm
During a 1985 visit to Sweden's National Portrait Gallery, Pred (geography, U. of California, Berkeley) was first struck by a painting of a young male. Called Badin, he was an Afro-Caribbean slave given to the Swedish royal court, whose portrait was created in 1775 by a royal court artist. Through the example of Badin, Pred explores past and presen