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title: 'Negresse blanche / The white negress / Die weisse Negerin: Amanoua Kpapo (show poster, c. 1910)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/amanoua-kpapo-white-negress-poster-c1910/
description: 'Tall narrow show poster headed ''Negresse blanche'': a pale-skinned woman with a spear and a tall pale hairdo stands in a starburst before palms and huts…'
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Racial show poster: uses the word 'negress' and 'Negerin' and caricatured, dehumanising faces of Black figures as billing for a human-display act This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Negresse blanche / The white negress / Die weisse Negerin: Amanoua Kpapo (show poster, c. 1910)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/amanoua-kpapo-white-negress-poster-c1910.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/amanoua-kpapo-white-negress-poster-c1910.jpg)

# Negresse blanche / The white negress / Die weisse Negerin: Amanoua Kpapo (show poster, c. 1910)

Tall narrow show poster headed 'Negresse blanche': a pale-skinned woman with a spear and a tall pale hairdo stands in a starburst before palms and huts, with 'The white negress / Die weisse Negerin' lettered beside her. Below, a crowd of dark-skinned figures with bulging eyes and open mouths gapes up at her. The tell: a loaded racial label is the billing, and the exaggerated faces of the crowd turn people into a caricature (name-calling) to sell a spectacle.

## Text on the object

Original (French, English and German) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
NEGRESSE BLANCHE
THE WHITE
NEGRESS
DIE WEISSE
NEGERIN
[small circular printer's stamp at left of the lettering, illegible]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
White negress. The white negress. The white negress (feminine).
```

Wording reproduced as printed, offensive terms included. The tiny stamp is illegible at this resolution. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering.

[← Bande Mataram (Paris), memorial page to Madan Lal Dhingra, 17 August 1909](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bande-mataram-paris-dhingra-memorial-1909/) [Buenos Aires 1910: Esposizioni Internazionali, Partecipazione ufficiale dell'Italia (Buenos Aires 1910: International Expositions, Official Participation of Italy) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/buenos-aires-1910-italian-participation-1910/)

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