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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 |