page_title: Dehumanization
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Dehumanization / History
caption_attribution_description: 1906 photograph of Ota Benga, described as being taken at Bronx Zoo. Author unknown.
context_page_description: Dehumanization is the denial of full humanness in others and the cruelty and suffering that accompanies it. A practical definition refers to it as the viewing and treatment of other persons as though they lack the mental capacities that are commonly attributed to human beings. In this definition, every act or thought that regards a person as "less than" human is an act of dehumanization.
  Dehumanization is one technique in incitement to genocide.
caption: Ota Benga, a human exhibit in Bronx Zoo, 1906
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