· Spectacle is an exhaustively researched work of social history that links Benga’s story with examinations of turn-of-the-century racial discrimination and discord, scientific polygenism, middle-class African American life in New York, and yellow www.doorway.ru: HarperCollins Publishers. · With “Spectacle,” however, Newkirk eschews the self-serving mythologies that have presented Benga’s exhibition as voluntary and www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins. Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk is a horrible book to read but it is full of information about the subject. This has spoilers Ota Benja was taken by slavers after they killed his wife and two kids/5.
Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga Hardcover - Illustrated, 2 July by. Pamela Newkirk (Author) › Visit Amazon's Pamela Newkirk Page. See search results for this author. Pamela Newkirk (Author) out of 5 stars. ratings. See all formats and editions. Newkirk (Within the Veil) centers this meticulously detailed monograph on the life of Ota Benga, a young Congolese man who at the beginning of the 20th century suffered the indignity of being. The book Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga is a history book that appeared in The author is Pamela Newkirk. Like another recent book I reviewed, King Leopold's Ghost, it is a popular history about a very interesting historical figure.I've been reading about the Congo for a new book I'm writing, and Ota Benga may become a minor character in that book.
Academia and the press as the bad guys. A review of Spectacle: The astonishing life of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk Amistad, New York, reviewed by Jerry Bergman. I have previously written about Ota Benga, the pygmy put on display in a zoo, but have since located research by several historians that sheds much new light on this tragic historical event. 1 The new research has corrected a. With “Spectacle,” however, Newkirk eschews the self-serving mythologies that have presented Benga’s exhibition as voluntary and benign. Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk is a horrible book to read but it is full of information about the subject. This has spoilers Ota Benja was taken by slavers after they killed his wife and two kids.
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