The showman and the slave : race, death, and memory in Barnum's America /

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Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an elderly enslaved woman said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. Seizing upon the novelty, the newly...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reiss, Benjamin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
Temas:
Barnum, P. T. > (Phineas Taylor), > 1810-1891.
Heth, Joice, > -1836.
Barnum, Phineas Taylor.
1800-1899
Popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Enslaved women > United States > Biography.
Freak shows > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
White people > Race identity > United States.
African Americans in popular culture > History > 19th century.
Racism in popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Death in popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes esclaves > États-Unis > Biographies.
Exhibitions de monstres > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Noirs américains dans la culture populaire > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Racisme dans la culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Mort dans la culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
African Americans in popular culture.
Death in popular culture.
Popular culture.
Race relations.
Racism in popular culture.
White people > Race identity.
Enslaved women.
Volkskultur
Rassenverhoudingen.
Populaire cultuur.
Curiosa.
Northeastern States > Race relations.
États-Unis (Nord-Est) > Relations raciales.
Northeastern States.
United States.
USA.
Biography
Biographies.
History.
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