Being black in Nazi Germany

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6. Surprised, indeed! I took a lot of art history classes

and for years, Dido Belle was identified as a servant. A few years ago, Afro-Europeans began wondering out loud and researching who were these Africans identified as servants or slaves. I really think this eventually led to the movie as well as research and rethinking black identification by some European museums. Recently, for instance, Paris museum renames masterpieces after black subjects https://www.france24.com/en/20190326-paris-musee-orsay-black-models-racism

But Dr. Henry Louis Gates is leading the field in the U.S. at Harvard.
In the 1960s, art patrons Dominique and Jean de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art from the ancient world to modern times. Highlights from the image archive, accompanied by essays written by major scholars, appeared in three large‐format volumes, consisting of one or more books, that quickly became collector’s items. A half‐century later, Harvard University Press and the Du Bois Institute are proud to have republished five of the original books and five completely new ones, extending the series into the twentieth century. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674052697

It's been really fantastic these last 10 years-or-so knowing who these people were and their stories.