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Author Lindfors, Bernth, author.

Title Early African entertainments abroad : from the Hottentot Venus to Africa's first Olympians / Bernth Lindfors.

Publication Info. Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Africa and the diaspora: history, politics, culture
Africa and the diaspora.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Courting the Hottentot Venus -- 2. The Bottom Line: African Caricature in Georgian England -- 3. Ira Aldridge at Covent Garden -- 4. Clicks and Clucks: Victorian Reactions to San Speech -- 5. Charles Dickens and the Zulus -- 6. A Zulu View of Victorian London -- 7. Dr. Kahn and the Niam-Niams -- 8. The United African Twins on Tour: A Captivity Narrative -- 9. Circus Africans -- 10. Africa's First Olympians.
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Subject Africans -- Europe -- Public opinion -- History.
Africans.
Europe.
Public opinion.
History.
Africa -- In popular culture.
Africa.
Black people in popular culture -- History.
Black people in popular culture.
Racism in popular culture -- History.
Racism in popular culture.
Sideshows.
Sideshows.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Lindfors, Bernth, author. Early African entertainments abroad 9780299301644 (DLC) 2014007282 (OCoLC)872139230
ISBN 9780299301637 (electronic book)
029930163X (electronic book)
1322097011 (electronic book)
9781322097015 (electronic book)
9780299301644
0299301648