Bart Pushaw

is a postdoctoral fellow in Art History, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Articles

Cover for: Renaming is about respect

Renaming is about respect

Museums on race

Addressing discrimination towards black people is a collective responsibility. Racism, evident in visual memory and disguised through political association, reaches beyond countries with direct colonialist pasts. Taking Estonia as a case study, historians and curators discuss how to ‘render race’ in museums and public discourse.

Cover for: The visual whitening of Estonians

Anthropological studies conducted during the Russian empire categorized Estonians as Asiatic. But with the rise of nationalism, colonialism and eugenics, Estonians came to be classified – and to self-classify – as Nordic and European. Photography and painting provide a record of this visual whitening.

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