{"id":592,"date":"2022-08-16T18:51:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T18:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wbbm.digitalprojects.brynmawr.edu\/dev\/?page_id=592"},"modified":"2022-09-16T17:37:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T21:37:15","slug":"normalizing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wbbm.digitalprojects.brynmawr.edu\/why-build\/exhibit\/education\/normalizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Normalizing White Supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the wall of Taylor Hall Library hung John Boydell’s print “William Penn’s Treaty with the Indians,” which commemorates the founding of the Pennsylvania colony and Penn’s agreement with the Lenape people who inhabited the region. This print depicts buildings under construction in the background, physically representing the settler colonialism that Penn initiated. Placed in conversation with photographs of Greek and Roman ruins and casts of Classical art, the print affirmed the white supremacist<\/a><\/strong> underpinnings of Bryn Mawr’s curriculum. Like other objects on display in Taylor Hall, it worked to normalize these values in the community, creating an environment in which students were encouraged to believe in their superiority as educated white women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unknown photographer, Students reading in Taylor Hall Library for History and Economics and Politics<\/em>, 1900. 19.5 x 24.5 cm. Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives, PAE_StudStudying_030_01.\u200b<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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John Hall (artist) (British, 1739 – 1797), John Boydell (publisher) (British, 1719 – 1804) \u200b
William Penn’s Treaty with the Indians, when he founded the Province of Pennsylvania in North America 1681<\/em>, 1775\u200b
Hand-colored engraving (after the painting by Benjamin West [American, 1738 \u2013 1820])\u200b
18.875 x 24.375 in. (47.943 x 61.913 cm)\u200b
Bryn Mawr College Special Collections, 2019.4.123\u200b<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Return to: From Guarded to Worldly Education<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Continue to: Larger Systems at Work: Quaker Schools for African-Americans<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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