Racial subhuman propaganda was institutionally sponsored and persists in images

Evidence

Mike was most excited about telling the history of slavery in a way that proved its relevance today: how it did not end but it evolved to sharecropping, then convict leasing, debt peonage laws, vagrancy laws, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, and racial profiling today. He wanted to shine a light on the fact that Harvard was responsible for the propaganda that enslaved people were subhuman. Harvard’s leadership supported Agassiz when he commissioned the images—so they were complicit. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 800

Categorization

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