Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga
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...
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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
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780062201003 (006220100X)
ASIN: 006220100X
Publisher: Amistad Press
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
While a single volume cannot begin to right the grave injustice that so tragically marked Benga