David Livingstone Smith and alum Ioana Panaitiu publish on simianization as dehumanization
David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., professor of philosophy, and co-author Ioana Panaitiu (Political Science, 鈥15) recently published a paper titled 鈥淎ping the human essence: simianization as dehumanization鈥 in Volume 6 of the Racism Analysis Yearbook.
The paper discusses the presentation of racial minorities as apes. It focuses on the simianization of black people, though Smith and Panaitiu note that numerous racial and ethnic groups have been simianized, and many different groups have committed simianization of others.