In 1904, men who believed in 'race science' put hundreds of people in a human zoo at the St. Louis world's fair. Today, those same racist, pseudoscientific views persist, and the men who hold them demand to be taken seriously in the name of academic freedom.
Sources & Further Reading:
Newkirk, Pamela (2015). Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga. Amistad.
Saini, Angela (2019). Superior: The Return of Race Science. Beacon Press.
McCray, Carrie Allen (2012). Ota Benga Under My Mother’s Roof. University of South Carolina Press.
Gould, Stephen Jay (1996). The Mismeasure of a Man. Penguin Books.
Nathan Cofnas’ Doctoral Thesis: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bd78170f-1131-47ef-af8d-7a3bb2ef41d0
https://jannalangholz.wordpress.com/2022/12/26/17-worlds-fair-deaths/
https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/specimen-days-human-zoos-at-the-1904-worlds-fair/
https://web.archive.org/web/20070610034510/http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Bontoc.html
https://ashp.cuny.edu/documentaries-list/savage-acts-wars-fairs-and-empire-1898-1904/#
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/how-i-became-the-scapegoat-in-the-jason-arday-affair-dc134088
https://investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/race-science-inc/
https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2007046/ghent-university-under-fire-for-appointing-us-philosopher-with-ties-to-scientific-racism
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-biosocial-science/article/abs/reptiles-with-a-conscience-the-coevolution-of-religious-and-moral-doctrine-by-nathan-cofnas-pp-523-ulster-institute-for-social-research-press-london-2012-3000-isbn-9780956881151-paperback/4005A8AD3C5B21AC0A82A38D5D97BBF8
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/03/the-man-who-was-caged-in-a-zoo
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/nyregion/thecity/the-scandal-at-the-zoo.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevmrjd9lj1o
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/06/harvard-claudine-gay-plagiarism
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/largest-human-zoo-world-history
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