Chaired by Tiziana Morosetti (University of Oxford), the round table discusses contemporary attempts to re-enact 'human zoos' and their artistic politics after the much-criticised and eventually cancelled performance of Brett Bailey's Exhibit B at the Barbican in 2014. Are re-enactments of 'human zoos' useful/desirable? Do they effectively tackle racial politics? Are we, as one petition stated, justified in censoring them when they risk being racially offensive?
The interdisciplinary research group ‘Race and Resistance across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century’ brings together researchers in the history, literature and culture of anti-racist movements in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, the United States, and beyond.
