#humanzoos

[spanky606]

Regrann from @yarimakarama So just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, let’s not forget about the human zoos. They put our ancestors on display in zoos, had them in cages with real animals and had months where they were sold out everyday, all for white folks to come and be entertained. So our ancestors took these devils out of caves and bondage only for these devils to put us in shackles, chains and zoos. So if you are more upset with me for my posts than you are with them for their acts of savagery against our ancestors then you yourself are in denial and you may just be a mothafukkin devil yourself. #WarriorMode #lookitup #humanzoos https://www.instagram.com/p/Br-jHNDHPih/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ckhm8vuan6s5

[stackumbrella-blog]

The horrible Human Zoos: Shocking and Shameful Black history of Europe.

Horrible pictures demonstrate how dark and Asian People were 'showed' in zoo walled in areas around the World. 'Human zoos' intended to stress social contrasts amongst Europeans and individuals esteemed crude. Millions went to the stunning fenced-in areas in the mid 20th century both in America

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[canibalia]

Made in collaboration with filmmaker Paula Heredia, The Couple in the Cage documents the performance Coco Fusco developed together with Guillermo Gómez Peña titled Two undiscovered amerindians visit the west. Created in 1992 during the 5th centenary of America’s colonization, the artists presented themselves as two members of a yet not known tribe of the gulf of Mexico -the Guatinaus-,  through the colonial dispositif of the human zoo, sparking debate with the public on anthropological exhibition forms, the viewpoint of history and progress, and our relation with the other, as the majority of the audiences believed in the authenticity of the performance.

Little known is that the cannibal inaugurated in a way the tradition of the human zoo: Columbus’ third trip brought back around 1500 two “carib cannibal” specimens that were publicly exposed in a square in the centre of Madrid, nurturing the objectification of alterity that would become art and science in the centuries to come.