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Spectacle
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Author : Pamela Newkirk
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2015-06-02
Spectacle written by Pamela Newkirk and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-02 with History categories.
2016 NAACP Image Award Winner An award-winning journalist reveals a little-known and shameful episode in American history, when an African man was used as a human zoo exhibit—a shocking story of racial prejudice, science, and tragedy in the early years of the twentieth century in the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Devil in the White City, and Medical Apartheid. In 1904, Ota Benga, a young Congolese “pygmy”—a person of petite stature—arrived from central Africa and was featured in an anthropology exhibit at the St. Louis World’s Fair. Two years later, the New York Zoological Gardens displayed him in its Monkey House, caging the slight 103-pound, 4-foot 11-inch tall man with an orangutan. The attraction became an international sensation, drawing thousands of New Yorkers and commanding headlines from across the nation and Europe. Spectacle explores the circumstances of Ota Benga’s captivity, the international controversy it inspired, and his efforts to adjust to American life. It also reveals why, decades later, the man most responsible for his exploitation would be hailed as his friend and savior, while those who truly fought for Ota have been banished to the shadows of history. Using primary historical documents, Pamela Newkirk traces Ota’s tragic life, from Africa to St. Louis to New York, and finally to Lynchburg, Virginia, where he lived out the remainder of his short life. Illuminating this unimaginable event, Spectacle charts the evolution of science and race relations in New York City during the early years of the twentieth century, exploring this racially fraught era for Africa-Americans and the rising tide of political disenfranchisement and social scorn they endured, forty years after the end of the Civil War. Shocking and compelling Spectacle is a masterful work of social history that raises difficult questions about racial prejudice and discrimination that continue to haunt us today.
Ota Benga
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Author : Phillips Verner Bradford
language : en
Publisher: St Martins Press
Release Date : 1992
Ota Benga written by Phillips Verner Bradford and has been published by St Martins Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
Describes how, in 1906, a missionary in Africa brought Benga to the United States and placed him on display at the World's Fair
Ota Benga
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Author : Noaha
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-08-05
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Ota
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Author : Phillips Verner Bradford
language : en
Publisher: Delta
Release Date : 1993-09-01
Ota written by Phillips Verner Bradford and has been published by Delta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-09-01 with History categories.
Describes how, in 1906, a missionary in Africa brought Benga to the United States and placed him on display at the World's Fair
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Author : Elvis Alves
language : en
Publisher: Mahaicony Books
Release Date : 2017-01-24
Ota Benga written by Elvis Alves and has been published by Mahaicony Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-24 with categories.
Ota Benga was put on display in a cage at the Bronx Zoo in 1906. A question on my mind while creating this chapbook was what cages do we put ourselves in or allow others to put us in? This question was not simply metaphorical for Ota Benga because he was literally put in a cage.
Ota Benga
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Author : Little Noaha
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2020-10-17
Ota Benga written by Little Noaha and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-17 with categories.
This is a children's picture book about a young boy who was kidnapped from Africa and caged in New York's Bronx Zoo. This is the true story of Ota Benga. Ota Benga was placed in a zoo cage and exhibited in New York's Bronx Zoo, attracting huge number of visitors.
Ota Benga Under My Mother S Roof
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Author : Carrie Allen McCray
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2012-08-27
Ota Benga Under My Mother S Roof written by Carrie Allen McCray and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-27 with Poetry categories.
In Ota Benga under My Mother's Roof, Carrie Allen McCray (1913–2008) uses poignant and personal verse to trace the ill-fated life of the Congolese pygmy who was famously exhibited in the Bronx Zoo in 1906 before being taken in by the McCray family of Lynchburg, Virginia. Rooted in the rich historical and autobiographic context of her own experiences with Benga, McCray offers compelling, dexterous poems that place Benga's story within the racial milieu of the early twentieth century as the burgeoning science of social anthropology worked to classify humans based on race and culture. The theme of this book is a study of humanity, of people of all kinds, in which Benga's vitality becomes the measure against which everyone is measured. With poems that revel in African American signifying, spirituality, and traditional storytelling, McCray's collection establishes a sincere legacy for Ota Benga as she shares her friend's harrowing tale with new generations.
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Author : Antonio Monda
language : it
Publisher: Edizioni Mondadori
Release Date : 2015-03-17
Ota Benga written by Antonio Monda and has been published by Edizioni Mondadori this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-17 with Fiction categories.
Arianna Sarris è una ragazza coraggiosa: vuole essere indipendente, studiare, lavorare. Ma, nella New York degli inizi del Novecento, per una giovane donna di origini greche non è facile percorrere la strada dell'emancipazione. Arianna trova lavoro nello zoo del Bronx proprio nel momento in cui arriva una nuova sorprendente attrazione: un pigmeo di ventitré anni, destinato a vivere insieme a orangutan e scimpanzé. Il suo nome è Ota Benga, ed è stato liberato dalla schiavitù da un missionario americano che ne è poi divenuto amico e lo ha portato con sé in America. L'esposizione di Ota Benga nella gabbia - organizzata nel 1904 sull'onda di un'interpretazione distorta delle teorie darwiniane, secondo cui il pigmeo sarebbe l'anello di congiunzione tra l'uomo e la scimmia - ha un enorme successo e suscita al contempo violente proteste. Colta, sensibile e perennemente alla ricerca, Arianna entra in crisi di fronte a questa vicenda, che vive da vicino, anche perché uno degli organizzatori è il suo fidanzato. Questo è solo il primo passo di un cammino che la condurrà attraverso gli Stati Uniti e ancora oltre, incontrando uomini e cieli lontani, intrecciando con Ota Benga un silenzioso dialogo a distanza: per giungere ai confini del mondo noto e iniziare a scoprire che il tesoro più grande non è destinato a chi ha gli occhi pieni di certezze, ma a coloro che sanno coltivare il dubbio e la ricerca. Con questo terzo volume della sua saga sul Ventesimo secolo newyorkese, Antonio Monda attinge a personaggi e vicende reali - da Roosevelt a Rockefeller, da Geronimo allo stesso Ota Benga, fino all'incredibile vicenda editoriale de La scomparsa di una grande razza di Madison Grant, libro poi apprezzato da Hitler - per dare vita a un romanzo di formazione che attraversa con coraggio alcune tra le ombre più terribili della crudeltà insita nel cuore dell'uomo e approda a una umanissima, dolente speranza.
An Alternative Decision
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Author : I. R. Jangharia
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2010-04
An Alternative Decision written by I. R. Jangharia and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04 with Existentialism categories.
It is a book which gives an insight into some fundamental questions of our existence, which you and I have considered within ourselves at one time or another in our lives. Some of us have been too afraid to tackle these type of questions, and some of us have not attempted to research the answers to the fundamental questions of our existence due to not being able to have the time to research them deeply in order to uncover the truth. Sadly, with regret, many of us are simply too ignorant to even consider or research certain truths because we think we know best. It is a book which highlights to the point, in a very concise manner. It is a book which allows you to think. It encourages you to go even deeper into establishing a certain truth for your own satisfaction in your own heart and mind. It is a book simplified even for the intellectuals in order to take up as a challenge for yourself. You certainly owe it to yourself. It is left for you to agree or disagree and come to your own conclusions after considering some or all of the points raised. Or you may still sit on the fence. It opens up another window in your life highlighting the very fundamental issues of the existence of life, and leaves it upon you to come to a decision within yourself. An Alternative Decision, to the one that you might already hold.
Fiction International 40 Animals
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language : en
Publisher: Fiction International
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