Agency through Otherness: Portraits of Performers in Circus Route Books, 1875-1925 Main Menu Introduction Introduction to the book and information about ways to navigate the content. The American Experiment: Circus in Context Circus performers and American history timeline Routing the Circus: The Things They Carried Circus Routes Map, 1875-1925 Ethnological Congresses and the Spectacle by Rebecca Fitzsimmons Outsiders in Demand: Chinese and Japanese Immigrant Performers by Angela Yon and Mariah Wahl Shattering Gender Roles: Women in the Circus by Elizabeth Harman Side Show Sounds: Black Bandleaders Respond to Exoticism Annexed Circus Musicians by Elizabeth C. Hartman Native Performance and Identity in The Wild West Show by Mariah Wahl Showmen's Rests: The Final Curtain Circus Cemetery Plots by Elizabeth C. Hartman Bibliography & Further Readings Bibliography and readings for each chapter Acknowledgements Creative Commons License

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Ethnological Congresses and the Spectacle

Outsiders in Demand: Chinese and Japanese Immigrant Performers

Shattering Gender Roles: Women in the Circus

Side Show Sounds: Black Bandleaders Respond to Exoticism

Native Performance and Identity in The Wild West Show

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