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Early African Entertainments Abroad: From the Hottentot Venus to Africa's First Olympians by Bernth Lindfors (Paperback, 2014)

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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries African and pseudo-African performers were displayed as curiosities throughout Europe and America. Appearing in circuses, ethnographic exhibitions, and traveling shows, these individuals and troupes drew large crowds. As Bernth Lindfors shows, the showmen, impresarios, and even scientists who brought supposedly representative inhabitants of the Dark Continent to a gaping public often selected the performers for their sensational impact. Spotlighting and exaggerating physical, mental, or cultural differences, the resulting displays reinforced pernicious racial stereotypes and left a disturbing legacy. Using period illustrations and texts, Early African Entertainments Abroad illuminates the mindset of the era's largely white audiences as they viewed wax models of Africans with tails and watched athletic competitions showcasing hungry cannibals. White spectators were thus assured of their racial superiority. And blacks were made to appear less than fully human precisely at the time when abolitionists were fighting to end slavery and establish equality.

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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-13
9780299301644
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209287097

Product Key Features

Author
Bernth Lindfors
Publication Name
Early African Entertainments Abroad: from the Hottentot Venus to Africa's First Olympians
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Social Sciences
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
232 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
361g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Bernth Lindfors
Series Title
Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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