Brian Wallis's Essay 'Black Bodies, White Science'
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Brian Wallis in his paper “Black Bodies, White Science: Louis Agassiz’s Slave Daguerreotypes,” exposes how white people in the 19th century use early science to highlight the inferiority of the African American slave. Walls says that due to the scientist public prejudice, in the 19th century the term racism surges. Louis Agassiz was the first scientific that used photography to remark the difference between white people body and black people body. He and the others Scientifics, categorized the black people as inferiors, animals, and as vulgar and seductive people. Scientist photograph the naked body of black people and express that their shape is not considered as higher beauty. Wallis express the differences between the typological photograph