Abstract
Mainstream discourses of migration and populist voices tend to be based on assumed distance between European subjects and migrant populations, disfiguring historical connections through time. This makes the excavation of Europe’s racist and imperial history particularly important as an intervention. The essay focuses on a bust collection in El Museo Canario in Gran Canaria, bought from France in the late nineteenth century, positioning the busts as folded objects in Amade M’charek’s sense. The unfolding exposes stories of an extensive global past where racism and imperialism are central components, in addition to not only hinting at the importance of race science in Europe, but also how areas on the margins of Europe could better insert themselves into larger narratives of modernization through their participation in scientific racism.
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