Bernth Lindfors is a professor emeritus of English and African literatures at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of a number of books on African literature and folklore, including Early Soyinka (2008) and Early Achebe (2009).
"This book will surprise you and may shock you. Its fascinating
case studies reveal how Africans and people of color were exhibited
as freaks, or became genuine entertainers enjoying their craft, in
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe and America. It is
also a serious study showing how 'racial science' was popularized
to justify to the European and American masses the conquest and
subjugation of Africa and Africans."--Neil Parsons, author of
Clicko the Dancing Bushman
"Highly recommended, undergraduates though faculty; general
readers."--Choice
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