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
Life Beyond the Big Top: African American and Female Circusfolk, 1860–1920.
12021-03-31T14:44:21-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1382944Citation Pageplain2021-04-15T12:43:50-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1Childress, Micah. “Life Beyond the Big Top: African American and Female Circusfolk, 1860–1920.” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 15, no. 2 (2015): 176–196. doi:10.1017/s1537781415000250