Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk

Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga

Pamela Newkirk

336 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction biography history race reflective slow-paced
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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...

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