Continuing the story of Madison Grant, who helped to found the Bronx Zoo, from David Samuels’s essay “Wild Things: Animal nature, human racism, and the future of zoos” in the June 2012 Harper’s magazine: the sad tale of Ota Benga. The first concrete application of Grant’s theoretical interests [in preserving species in  “pure”, untouched state] to … Continue reading Ota Benga and scientific racism