Human Zoos: The Western World’s Shameful Secret, 1900-1958
网页2024年8月22日 · These shocking rare photographs show how so-called ‘human zoos‘ around the world kept ‘primitive natives’ in enclosures so Westerners could gawp and jeer at them. The horrifying images, some of which were taken as recently as 1958, show how black and Asian people were cruelly treated as exhibits that attracted millions of tourists.
Human zoo - Wikipedia
网页Human zoos, also known as ethnological expositions, were public displays of people, usually in a so-called "natural" or "primitive" state. [3] They were most prominent during the 19th and 20th centuries. [3]
Human zoos: When real people were exhibits - BBC News
网页2011年12月27日 · An exhibition in Paris looks at the history of so-called human zoos, that put inhabitants from foreign lands, mostly African countries, on display as articles of curiosity.
Remembering the Racist History of ‘Human Zoos’
网页2021年12月29日 · The “Human Zoo” exhibition features a contemporary art installation by the Burundi-born photographer Teddy Mazina, which pictures Africans measuring Europeans in a kind of role reversal ...
Human zoos: When people were the exhibits – DW – …
网页The only available way of making a living was through ethnological expositions, also called human zoos. At the time, performers of a human zoo would tour through Europe just like rock bands...
Where 'Human Zoos' Once Stood, A Belgian Museum Now Faces Its ... - NPR
网页2018年9月26日 · In 1897, Belgian King Leopold brought 267 Congolese people to his country estate to display them in a mock African village — a practice referred to as a human zoo.
Human Zoos
网页Welcome to humanzoos.net – the first online archive on human zoos. This homepage aims to be a guide for people interested in the phenomenon of human zoos, especially the visual remnants. Human zoos/ethnographic exhibitions took place roughly from the 1860ies to the 1960 and are a product of the colonial aera.
Human Zoo: For Centuries, Indigenous Peoples Were Displayed as ...
网页2011年8月30日 · An article about the former existence of "Human Zoos" in which Indigenous Peoples were displayed around the globe as novelties and as brutal lessons in imperialism. Author: Sara Shahriari
'Human zoos': Europe struggles to confront its racist past
网页2023年4月16日 · In Belgium, which put people on display in a "human zoo" as late as 1958 at the Brussels World Fair, the debate about the country's colonial crimes has become particularly animated over the...
Synopsis - Human Zoos
网页Human Zoos tells the horrifying story of this effort to dehumanize entire classes of people in the name of science. It will also tell the story of the courageous African-American ministers in New York City who tried to stop what was going on.