Unthinkable Racism In Recent History

At the turn of the 20th century, a young Congolese man was included in an anthropology exhibit at the World’s Fair before being put on display in the New York Zooligical Gardens’ Monkey House. This hour, we’ll talk about how such an inhumane idea became reality with Pamela Newkirk, author of Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga (Amistad).


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