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Human zoo

Human zoos (also called “ethnological expositions” or “Negro Villages”) were 19th and 20th century public exhibits of humans, usually in a “natural” or “primitive” state. The displays often emphasized the cultural differences between Europeans of Western civilisation and non-European peoples.

number of them placed indigenous people (particularly Africans) in a continuum somewhere between the great apes and humans of European descent. Ethnographic zoos have since been criticized as highly degrading and racist.

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