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 List of Performers Performers covered in this exhibit Bibliography & Further Readings Bibliography and readings for each chapter Acknowledgements Creative Commons License

Native Americans

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LCSH URI: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065184

Contents of this tag:

  1. Adored and Mocked: Japonisme in American Culture
  2. Afong Moy: The Museum and Commercialization of Chinese Bodies
  3. Native Performance and Identity in The Wild West Show
  4. Interracial Encounters: Unexpected Circus Connections
  5. Social Constructions
  6. Samuel Lone Bear: The "Good Indian"
  7. Iron White Man: Conflict, Testimony, and Native Land
  8. Charging Thunder (George Edward Williams): Escape From Persecution
  9. Showmen's Rests: The Final Curtain
  10. Bill Pickett: The Native, Black Cowboy