Even though Black citizens of the Western world have been excluded from the mainstream narratives that portraiture provides, there are rare instances where they are included in portraits. This provides the question as to whether there is a fair representation that is to the same standards as Whites. When portrayed, Black people are often shown in a way that exhibits a concept that favors White features and history over that of their own marginalized. This notion is exhibited in the Manet portrait, Olympia. Olympia portrays a White European woman in nude who is presumedly a prostitute as she lays atop a white bed, gazing at the viewer. A woman of African descent is shown at her diagonal who contextually seems to be a servant tending to her as
