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Ethnological Congress and the Spectacle

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Further Readings

• Stambler, and Jennifer Lemmer Posey, “The Oriental India Poster: Transnational Imagery and Ethnographic Representation in the American Circus,” Early Popular Visual Culture 13, no. 1 (2015).
• Bogdan, Robert. Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
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• Dahlinger, Fred Jr., “The Development of the Railroad Circus, Part Two,” Bandwagon 28, no. 1 (January—February. 1984).
• Lindfdors, Bernth. Early African Entertainments Abroad : from the Hottentot Venus to Africa’s First Olympians. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.
• Qureshi, Sadia. Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth Century Britain. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Outsiders in Demand: Chinese and Japanese Immigrant Performers

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Further Readings

• Densho. "Densho digital archives." https://densho.org/archives
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• HoSang, Daniel Martinez, Oneka LaBennett, and Laura Pulido, eds. Racial Formation in the 21st Century. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2012.
• Lipsitz, George. Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics. Temple University Press, 2006.
• Lowe, Lisa. The Intimacies of Four Continents. Duke University Press, 2015.
• Ong, Aihwa. Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
• South Asian American Digital Archive. https://www.saada.org/
• Tchen, John Kuo Wei. New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776–1882. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University, 1999.

Shattering Gender Roles: Women in the Circus

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Further Readings

• ​​​​​​Holman, Gavin. Soft lips on cold metal: female brass soloists of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Last Updated September 2019.

Side Show Sounds: Black Bandleaders Respond to Exoticism

Bibliography

•  Abbott, Lynn and Doug Seroff. Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz. Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
• Berresford, Mark.  That's Got 'Em! The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
• Button, Marilyn D. "Cornish, Samuel." In The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Oxford Reference. Date Accessed 2 December 2020. https://www-oxfordreference-com.libproxy.lib.ilstu.edu/view/10.1093/acref/9780195138832.001.0001/acref-9780195138832-e-129.
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• “Eph Williams: The Legend of the Tent.” Daily News, May 4, 1997. https://www.newspapers.com/image/475733789.
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• Rouzeau, E. T. "Show-owner's wife airs views on tolerance: Says southern prejudice far less dangerous than said northern tolerence." The Pittsburgh Courier (1911-1950), March 14, 1942. https://www.newspapers.com/image/40067092/.

Further Readings

• Abbott, Lynn and Doug Seroff. "They Certl'y Sound Good to Me": Sheet Music, Southern Vaudeville, and the Commercial Ascendancy of the Blues." American Music 14, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 402-454. https://doi.org/10.2307/3052302
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• Hughes, Sakina Mariam. "Under One Big Tent: American Indians, African Americans and the Circus World of Nineteenth-Century America." PhD diss., Michigan State University, 2012.
• Lefferts, Peter M. "Black US Army Bands and Their Bandmasters in World War I." Faculty Publications, University of Nebraska, 2018.
• Lewis, Steven. ""Untamed Music": Early Jazz in Vaudeville." Thesis, Florida State University, 2012.
• Masten, April F. "Challenge Dancing in Antebellum America: Sporting Men, Vulgar Women, and Blacked-Up Boys." Journal of Social History 48, no. 3 (Spring 2015): 605-634. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shu07
• Moses, Jennifer. "Writing The Age: T. Thomas Fortune, the African American Press, and the Unfolding of Jim Crow America, 1880-1930." PhD dis., University of Delaware, 2012.
• Schwartz, Richard L. "The African American Contribution to the Cornet of the Nineteenth Century: Some Long-Lost Names." Historic Brass Society Journal 12 (2000): 61-88.
• Stencell, A. W. Circus and Carnival Ballyhoo: Sideshow Freaks, Jaggers and Blade Box Queens. Toronto: ECW Press, 2010.

Native Performance and Identity in The Wild West Show

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Further Readings

• The 400 Years Project, https://www.400yearsproject.org/.
• Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties Vol. I, Laws (Compiled to December 1, 1902). Archived via Wayback Machine, 2011-08-05.
• LANDBACK. "Landback manifesto." Accessed May 2, 2021. https://landback.org/manifesto/.
• U.S. National Library of Medicine, "Native Voices: Native Peoples' concepts of health and illness." Accessed May 2, 2021. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/index.html.

Showmen's Rests: The Final Curtain

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