The Showman and the Slave : : Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America / / Benjamin Reiss.
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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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t CONTENTS -- |t FIGURES -- |t AckrunvZedgments -- |t Introduction: The Dark Subject -- |t 1. DEATH AND DYING -- |t 1. Possession -- |t 2. The Celebrated Curiosity -- |t 3. Private Acts, Public Memories -- |t 4. Sacred and Profane -- |t 5. Culture Wars -- |t 6. Love, Automata, and India Rubber -- |t 7. Spectacle -- |t II. RESURRECTION -- |t 8. Authenticity and Commodity -- |t 9. Exposure and Mastery -- |t 10. Erasure -- |t III. LIFE -- |t 11. A Speculative Biography -- |t Note to the 2010 Printing -- |t Notes -- |t Index |
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| 520 | |a 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 emerging commercial press turned her act--and especially her death--into one of the first media spectacles in American history. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Death in popular culture |z United States |x History |y 19th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Freak shows |x Social aspects |z United States |x History |y 19th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Popular culture |z United States |x History |y 19th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Racism in popular culture |z United States |x History |y 19th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Whites |x Race identity |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Women slaves |z United States |v Biography. | |
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