Revealing the Smithsonian’s ‘racial brain collection’
A few years ago, a Filipino American activist and artist, Janna Añonuevo Langholz, learned about their stories and went looking for them, marking their graves and leading tours of the site of the Philippine Exhibition. She also made a startling discovery: The brains of four Filipino people had been removed and sent to the Smithsonian’s U.S. National Museum, the precursor to the National Museum of Natural History.
Claire Healy, a copy aide at The Washington Post and a freelance writer, learned about Langholz’s work and probed further. “I asked the Smithsonian, ‘How many brains do you have and why?’ And they sent me a spreadsheet,” she said.
Healy partnered with investigative reporter Nicole Dungca to keep digging. “There were children in the collection,” Dungca said. “There were men and women and then fetuses. Many of them were Indigenous people, other people of color. And many of them didn’t have their identities actually recorded, partly because they were looked at as specimens.”
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Makes me ill to listen to this. Any and all universities, museums and other such institutions need to stop this sort of behavior and help pay for the repatriation of all body parts. Let them be buried in their home countries with honor and respect.
This is unethical and a valuation of their Human rights!
@truthbtold3177
11 ай бұрын
Devaluation
@amrita3000
11 ай бұрын
@@truthbtold3177 think he meant violation.
This is sadly another example in the long line of disrespect shown to the living and dead bodies of minorities in Americas history. I learned recently the man called the grandfather of gynecology, practiced his surgeries on enslaved women, without the aid of pain relief, and without consent.
@maryann7619
11 ай бұрын
It's not like the Smithsonian was disemboweling living humans and eating their heart for courage or anything like that.
@amrita3000
11 ай бұрын
They also have white samples.
@ddoseofmemes
11 ай бұрын
@@amrita3000saying that doesnt justify their actions. Tssk.
@amrita3000
11 ай бұрын
@@ddoseofmemes It shows clearly this is not racism. Disrespectful to all, not just to non whites.
Can someone tell me this isn't EVIL
@YYC403NOYP
10 ай бұрын
Check the 1904 worlds Fair where different indigenous people from countries where the white man had occupied where brought in and where placed in an area that was called the Human ZOO. There are several grim stories that came out of the worlds fair.
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The fact that this is so low key is upsetting to me
Is there an Abby Normal there?
This is an amazing work! Great job The Post
U really believe these people died with no foul play - cuz i don't
Not like they were collecting brains and body parts from live people.
@keralytekid
11 ай бұрын
True. But if they weren't doing anything wrong, why not notify the families? It's because they were treated as specimens, not people.
@lookatyou5809
11 ай бұрын
Excuses.
@ddoseofmemes
11 ай бұрын
Colonial mindset. Absolutely dreadful.
This hurt my brain
Look what Atheism can do.
I'm more curious about the giants The Smithsonian collects and hides from the public..
@lookatyou5809
11 ай бұрын
Then do a documentary about that.
@idkidk8278
11 ай бұрын
NAH