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Statement of the question: Biakolo (2002: 38) identifies how the Western World thought about the non-Caucasian races. Since the fifteenth century, the Western World has come into contact with these non-Caucasian races, and tried to make sense of the people that seemed so foreign to them. Biakolo’s contribution therefore serves two purposes. Firstly, he presents and analyse the descriptions provided by the Western world in order to make sense of the non- Caucasian races. Secondly, he det...