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The Reason Why Colored American Is Not in World's Columbian Exposition: The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian Literature
Rydell, Robert W.; Wells, Ida B.
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paperback. Expressly intended to demonstrate America's national progress toward utopia, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago pointedly excluded the contributions of African Americans. An eloquent statement of protest and pride, this title reminds us that struggles over cultural representation are nothing new in American life. Num Pages: 136 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 12. Weight in Grams: 200.
Expressly intended to demonstrate America's national progress toward utopia, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago pointedly excluded the contributions of African Americans. For them, being left outside the gates of the "White City" merely underscored a more general exclusion from America's bright future. Exhibits at the fair were controlled by all-white committees, and those that acknowledged African Americans at all, such as the famous Aunt Jemima pancake exhibit, ridiculed and denigrated them. Many African Americans saw the racist policies of the World's Columbian Exposition as mirroring, framing, and reinforcing the larger horrors confronting blacks throughout the United States, where ... Read more
Expressly intended to demonstrate America's national progress toward utopia, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago pointedly excluded the contributions of African Americans. For them, being left outside the gates of the "White City" merely underscored a more general exclusion from America's bright future. Exhibits at the fair were controlled by all-white committees, and those that acknowledged African Americans at all, such as the famous Aunt Jemima pancake exhibit, ridiculed and denigrated them. Many African Americans saw the racist policies of the World's Columbian Exposition as mirroring, framing, and reinforcing the larger horrors confronting blacks throughout the United States, where ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252067846
SKU
V9780252067846
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About Rydell, Robert W.; Wells, Ida B.
Robert W. Rydell, a professor of history at Montana State University, is the author of All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire and American International Expositions and other books.
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