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Concept

Stereotypes (Social psychology)

Images

  • Two black men are given a lunch of roast beef by a white farmer, then they attempt to rob him, but he catches them, beats them, and sends them on their way. Coloured wood engravings.
  • An episode in Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens: a crowd gathers around Mr Mantalini who has attempted to poison himself. Etching after Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • In a crowded salon, a wigmaker fits wigs according to occupation; representing the character stereotyping of Gall's phrenology. Coloured etching by J.E. Marcus after J. Smies, c. 1810.
  • Many people are riding on and crowding around a large horse-drawn carriage. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1862, after A. Hunt.
  • A Jewish man selling oranges outside the Royal Exchange in London; a Jewish man in a top hat and coat displaying a bond for £50,000 that he has acquired; representing the advancement of Jews from street-selling to high finance. Wood engraving, 18--.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Policing desire : pornography, AIDS, and the media / Simon Watney.

    Watney, Simon. | Date: 1997
    • Books

    OCD ain't a word : a zine about mental health / J. F. Gamber.

    Gamber, Johnny | Date: [2021]
    • Student dissertations

    A woman hater and other stories : female doctors in 19th century literature as a reflection of British society's ideas about women in medicine / Sana Owais Subhan.

    Subhan, Sana Owais. | Date: 2012
    • Books

    Telling is risky business : mental health consumers confront stigma / Otto F. Wahl.

    Wahl, Otto F. | Date: [1999], ©1999
    • Pictures
    • Online

    An episode in Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens: a crowd gathers around Mr Mantalini who has attempted to poison himself. Etching after Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).

    Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882. | Date: [1839] | Reference: 43002i
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