Agency through Otherness: Portraits of Performers in Circus Route Books, 1875-1925Main MenuThe American Experiment: Circus in ContextCircus performers and American history timelineRouting the Circus: The Things They CarriedCircus Routes Map, 1875-1925Ethnological Congresses and the Spectacleby Rebecca FitzsimmonsOutsiders in Demand: Chinese and Japanese Immigrant Performersby Angela Yon and Mariah WahlShattering Gender Roles: Women in the Circusby Elizabeth HarmanSide Show Sounds: Black Bandleaders Respond to ExoticismAnnexed Circus Musicians by Elizabeth C. HartmanNative Performance and Identity in The Wild West Showby Mariah WahlShowmen's Rests: The Final CurtainCircus Cemetery Plots by Elizabeth C. HartmanList of PerformersPerformers covered in this exhibitBibliography & Further ReadingsBibliography and readings for each chapterAcknowledgementsAngela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
Chinese Performers
12021-04-29T15:30:58-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1382941Tag Pageplain2021-04-29T15:30:58-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1This tag represents the exhibit author's unofficial variant of the LCSH tag "Foreign workers, Chinese" (https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85003509.html). We find the official heading offered by LCSH is limiting and unnecessarily othering of non-citizen performers from China, who were often denied the opportunity to pursue citizenship by racist US foreign policy.
12021-04-26T11:44:24-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1Tracing the Origins of Yellowface114plain2021-05-03T11:58:04-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
12021-01-28T08:49:17-08:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1Ethnological Congresses and the Spectacle58by Rebecca Fitzsimmonsplain10482072023-11-16T14:04:39-08:00Rebecca Fitzsimmons776fc8f5a4c40ba6b2ce5ef275d03821c12e0249
12021-04-23T09:30:14-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1Chang: "The Chinese Giant"30plain2021-06-22T15:17:38-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
12021-04-23T10:20:58-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1Moy Kee: Chinese Mayor of America27plain2021-05-19T16:43:20-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
12021-04-23T09:51:15-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1Che Mah: Short-Statured Chinese Performer23plain2021-05-30T15:08:15-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
12021-02-24T13:29:05-08:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1Prince Youturkey: Circus As Community16plain2021-04-30T06:05:18-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
12021-04-22T08:29:41-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1High Wires and Traveling Shows: Portraits of Performers14plain10520132021-05-29T13:34:33-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
