The showman and the slave : race, death, and memory in Barnum's America / Benjamin Reiss.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (x, 267 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- 9780674042650
- 0674042654
- Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891
- Heth, Joice, -1836
- Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891
- Heth, Joice, -1836
- Barnum, Phineas Taylor
- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Women slaves -- United States -- Biography
- Freak shows -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- White people -- Race identity -- United States
- African Americans in popular culture -- History -- 19th century
- Racism in popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Death in popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Northeastern States -- Race relations
- Culture populaire -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Femmes esclaves -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- Exhibitions de monstres -- Aspect social -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Noirs américains dans la culture populaire -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Racisme dans la culture populaire -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Mort dans la culture populaire -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- États-Unis (Nord-Est) -- Relations raciales
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
- African Americans in popular culture
- Death in popular culture
- Popular culture
- Race relations
- Racism in popular culture
- White people -- Race identity
- Women slaves
- Northeastern States
- United States
- Volkskultur
- Rassenverhoudingen
- Populaire cultuur
- Curiosa
- USA
- 1800-1899
- 306/.0973/09034 21
- E165 .R36 2001
- 15.85
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- AckrunvZedgments -- Introduction: The Dark Subject -- 1. DEATH AND DYING -- 1. Possession -- 2. The Celebrated Curiosity -- 3. Private Acts, Public Memories -- 4. Sacred and Profane -- 5. Culture Wars -- 6. Love, Automata, and India Rubber -- 7. Spectacle -- II. RESURRECTION -- 8. Authenticity and Commodity -- 9. Exposure and Mastery -- 10. Erasure -- III. LIFE -- 11. A Speculative Biography -- Note to the 2010 Printing -- Notes -- Index
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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