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Title Spectacle : the astonishing life of Ota Benga / Pamela Newkirk.
Author Newkirk, Pamela, author.
Publication Info. New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015]
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  B BENGA    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description xvi, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
text rdacontent.
unmediated rdamedia.
volume rdacarrier.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-297).
Summary Describes the cruelty and prevalent racial prejudice in early-twentieth-century America that resulted in a Congolese man being featured in an exhibit in the 1904 World's Fair and then displayed in the Monkey House of a New York zoo.
Subject Benga, Ota.
Mbuti (African people) -- Biography.
Congolese (Democratic Republic) -- Biography.
Human zoos -- Biography.
Racism -- United States -- 1901-1909 -- Biography.
ISBN 006220100X (hardcover) : $25.99
9780062201003 (hardcover)