Between 1810 and 1940, nearly 35 thousand people were exhibited in world fairs, colonial exhibitions, zoos, freak shows, circuses and reconstructed ethnic villages in Europe, America and Japan. Some 1.5 billion visitors attended these events.
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September 3, 2020
CARL HAGENBACK : PIONEER OF THE GERMAN HUMAN ZOO
Their tight schedule included several performances a day — from morning to evening they were gawked at.
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September 3, 2020
THEODOR MICHAEL WONJA
Michael survived the Nazi era, but even after 1945 he continued to live in hiding to avoid racists. His friends and colleagues wanted to leave Germany for the US as soon as possible.
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August 10, 2020
Black People On Display: The Forgotten History of Human Zoos
We may not be in physical cages any more, but the othering, the racism, the rise of the far-right across Europe certainly makes me feel like a specimen, to be observed, tamed, controlled and expelled.
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August 10, 2020
Black British history: the row over the school curriculum in England
“The whole basis of the Windrush scandal was that ‘these people don’t belong here’, that their citizenship could be revoked. It makes me feel like we don’t belong, like we’ve never made any contribution,” she says. “That is not the truth.”