Agency through Otherness: Portraits of Performers in Circus Route Books, 1875-1925Main MenuIntroductionIntroduction to the book and information about ways to navigate the content.The 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
Japanese Performers
12021-04-29T15:26:42-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1382941Tag Pageplain2021-04-29T15:26:42-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1This tag represents the exhibit author's unofficial variant of the LCSH tag "Foreign workers, Japanese" (https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007010570.html). We find the official heading offered by LCSH is limiting and unnecessarily othering of non-citizen performers from Japan, who were often denied the opportunity to pursue citizenship by racist US foreign policy.
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12021-04-22T08:20:35-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1Adored and Mocked: Japonisme in American Culture158plain10747422021-05-29T13:24:19-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
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
12021-02-24T13:29:48-08:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1Albert S. Uyeno: Japanese Performers and WWII28plain2021-05-05T19:01:17-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
12021-02-24T13:29:05-08:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1Prince Youturkey: Circus As Community19plain2021-05-05T18:52:18-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
12021-04-22T08:29:41-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1High Wires and Traveling Shows: Portraits of Performers14plain10520132021-05-29T13:34:33-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
12021-04-21T08:05:29-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1King Sarbro: A Balancing Act14plain2021-05-05T19:02:05-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
