Tag: Ota Benga
From The Atlantic on Teaching Human Evolution, a Bit of Rare Honesty in Reporting
With permission from John West and Sarah Chaffee, here is the full text of their interview with staff writer Olga Khazan.
Listen: Bought in a Slave Auction, Displayed as Evolutionary “Science”
The association with “mainstream science” is often weaponized as a way of overawing us and persuading us to stop expecting answers to hard questions.
From Human Zoos, College Students Learn the Consequences of Scientific Racism
One of the rewarding experiences that go with creating a film is doing live screenings and being able to interact in a personal way with viewers during Q&A.
YouTube Premiere of Award-Winning Film Exposes Human Zoos, Scientific Racism
“Science is a wonderful thing, but human zoos, scientific racism, and eugenics were shocking betrayals of science.”
What Anne Frank and Ota Benga Have in Common
Cruelty and injustice can seem an abstraction, committed against faceless people.