The Swiss mountain with a racist name – and the artist fighting to rechristen it - News Summed Up

The Swiss mountain with a racist name – and the artist fighting to rechristen it


In August 2008, Sasha Huber landed by helicopter near the peak of the Agassizhorn mountain in Switzerland. A creationist, Agassiz believed that God had purposefully created black people as an inferior species, a viewpoint he relentlessly expressed on several lecture tours of America. Extreme … Agassiz believed God created black people as an inferior species. Reclaimed … Huber’s portraits of Renty and Delia Taylor. Huber subsequently gifted the portraits of Renty and Delia to the Lanier family.


Source: The Guardian November 22, 2022 08:31 UTC



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