Lindfors Bernth Early African Entertainments Abroad: From the Hottentot Venus to Africa`s First Olympians 9780299301644

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Автор: Lindfors Bernth
Название: Early African Entertainments Abroad: From the Hottentot Venus to Africa`s First Olympians
ISBN: 9780299301644
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Массовая культура

Исследования азиатских и африканских этнических групп

ISBN-10: 0299301648
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 232
Вес: 0.34 кг.
Дата издания: 25.11.2014
Серия: Africa and the diaspora
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 56 black and white illustrations
Размер: 226 x 150 x 15
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Circus,Popular culture,Black & Asian studies
Подзаголовок: From the hottentot venus to africa`s first olympians
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: 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 eras 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.

Early African Entertainments Abroad: From the Hottentot Venus to Africa`s First Olympians, Lindfors Bernth