Universal Education [Illustration]

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Title

Universal Education [Illustration]
The Web 1928

Description

This illustration shown at the beginning of the yearbook. Depicts a white matronly figure surrounded by four children of differing ethnicities: brown, Asian, Native American, and white. Part of a series of illustrations at the beginning of each section in the yearbook. Other illustrations include: Brotherhood, Individual Liberty, International Peace, Democracy, Industrial Harmony, Temperance, Moral Justice). Suggest a power dynamic between educators, illustrated as white, and pupils, illustrated as non-white children; where whiteness has the power and intellect to educate innocent, ignorant members of other races.

Source

Virginia Bapatist Historical Society
Richmond, Virginia

Date

1928

Contributor

Leslie Stevens

Format

Type

Files

TheWeb_1928_p.9.jpg

Collection

Citation

Senior Class of 1928, “Universal Education [Illustration],” University of Richmond Race & Racism Project, accessed October 15, 2024, https://memory.richmond.edu/items/show/139.