The Last Human Zoo

Human zoos, or ethnological expositions, put people — mostly colonized and Indigenous ones — on show in Europe and America from the 1870s well into the 20th century: some thirty exhibitions at the Jardin d’Acclimatation in Paris, the Congolese man Ota Benga in the Bronx Zoo’s monkey house in 1906, a Congolese village at Brussels’s Expo 58.