REVEALING THE SMITHSONIAN’S ‘RACIAL BRAIN COLLECTION’ by Nicole Dungca and
Claire Healy (The Washington Post, free access).
A must-read text of horror and racism.
"Nearly 100 years later, Sara’s brain is still housed by the institution, wrapped in muslin and immersed in preservatives in a large metal container. It is stored in a museum facility in Maryland with 254 other brains, amassed mostly in the first half of the 20th century. Almost all of them were gathered at the behest of Hrdlicka, a prominent anthropologist who believed that White people were superior and collected body parts to further now-debunked theories about anatomical differences between races."
"Most of the brains were removed upon death from Black and Indigenous people and other people of color."