Scientific Racism and the Pioneers of the Human Zoo Today, the idea of a human zoo is an incredibly uncomfortable one – and that’s exactly why it needs to be remembered. Not too long ago, zoos included groups of people among their exhibits, living in what was supposed to be their natural habitat, often displayed alongside other exhibitions that advertised all that was … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: Remember Them
Human zoos
Wednesday Open Thread: Remember Them
Ota Benga (c. 1883 – March 20, 1916) was a Congolese man, a Mbuti pygmy known for being featured in an anthropology exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904, and in a human zoo exhibit in 1906 at the Bronx Zoo. Benga had been purchased from African slave traders by the missionary and anthropologist Samuel Phillips Verner, a businessman … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Remember Them