Title:

Circassian Beauty in the American Sideshow
Description:

Among the “human curiosities” in P. T. Barnum’s American Museum was a supposed escapee from an Ottoman harem, a figure marketed as both the pinnacle of white beauty and an exoticised other. Betsy Golden Kellem investigates the complex of racial and cultural stereotypes that made the Circassian beauty such a sideshow spectacle.
URL:

http://publicdomainreview.org/essay/circassian-beauties
Category:

Fashion Style
Date added:

2023-06-11

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