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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

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Contents of this tag:

  1. Afong Moy: The Museum and Commercialization of Chinese Bodies
  2. Social Constructions
  3. Ethnological Congresses and the Spectacle
  4. Side Show Sounds: Black Bandleaders Respond to Exoticism
  5. Ethnological Congresses
  6. Circus Musicians & The Black Press
  7. Chang: "The Chinese Giant"
  8. Big Women
  9. Banished to the Annex: The Catch-22 of Circus Work
  10. Che Mah: Short-Statured Chinese Performer
  11. Marie (Riche) Lille
  12. Owning Oneself: Entertainment as Empowering Enterprise
  13. Portraits of Midwest Musicians
  14. Ida Williams
  15. Ella Ewing
  16. Bearded Women
  17. Annie Jones
  18. Grace Gilbert
  19. The Engineer: Fred D. Powell (1869-1922)
  20. The Soldier: S. P. White (1867-1943)
  21. The Macon Jaybird: J. O. McNutt (1867-1931)
  22. The Macon City Kid: Joe W. Pleasant (1870-)
  23. The Brothers: W. T. (1872-1918) & C. E. (1874-1943) Enix
  24. The Big Band: James Wolfscale (~1868-1921)
  25. The Firsts: T. S. Roadman (1844-1909) & R. N. Thompson (1858-1936)
  26. Illustrated History of the Ethnological Congress