The Magic Cure
Publisher Currier & Ives American
Not on view
This pair of before and after images come from the Currier & Ives's Darktown series where offensive racial stereotypes are applied to Black (African American) people. That the firm issued so many works of this type demonstrates how commonplace racist imagery was in nineteenth-century American culture. It is hoped that by studying the context that produced such images, today's viewers will work to minimize discrimination, stereotyping and intolerance.
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