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The White African American Body /

Blacks with white skin. Since colonial times, showmen have exhibited the bodies of African Americans with white or gradually whitening skin in taverns, dime museums, and circus sideshows. The term "white Negro" has served to describe an individual born with albinism as well as those who ha...

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Autor principal: Martin, Charles D., 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction: A Ballyhoo for the Exhibition -- 1. The White Negro in the Early Republic -- 2. Barnum's Leopard Boy: The Reign of the Piebald Parliament -- 3. The Double Bind of the Albino: "Less Nigger and More Nigger at the Same Time" -- 4. "A Better Skin": Scenes from the Exhibition -- 5. White Negroes, Leopard Boys, and the King of Pop -- Afterword: Requiem for a Wigger. 
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