Ode to Ota Benga
by Lester Allyson Knibbs, Ph.D.
(formerly Hakeem Muhammad)
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"Ode to Ota Benga"
Darwinism

Bogdan, Robert.  Freak Show – Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988)

Darwin, Charles. 
The Descent of Man

Darwin, Charles. 
The Origin of Species

Fiedler, Leslie. 
Freaks (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978)

Gould, Stephen Jay.  “The Hottentot Venus” (
The Flamingo’s Smile; New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1983)

Gould, Stephen Jay. 
Ever Since Darwin (New York:  W.W. Norton & Company, 1979)

Gould, Stephen Jay. 
The Mismeasure of Man (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1981)

Van der Post, Laurens. 
A Mantis Carol (London: Hogarth Press, 1975)
The St. Louis Fair

Bennett, Mark.  Louisiana Purchase Exhibition (St. Louis: Universal Exposition Publishing Company, 1905)

Buel, J.W., ed. 
Louisiana and the Fair: An Exposition of the World, Its People and Their Achievements (St. Louis: Worlds’ Progress Publishing Company, 1904)

Sterling, Andrew B.  “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis” (song, music by Kerry Mills) (the “hoochee-coochee”) (New York: F.A. Mills, c1904)




Rydell, Robert. 
All the World’s a Fair: Visions of Empire of American International Expositions, 1876-1916 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984)
World’s Fairs

Allwood, John.  The Great Exhibitions (London: Studio Vista, 1977)

Drinnon, Richard. 
Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire Building (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980)

Findling, John. 
Historical Dictionary of World’s Fairs (New York: Greenwood Press, 1990)

Greenhalgh, Paul. 
Ephemeral Vistas: The Expositions Universelles, Great Exhibitions and World’s Fairs, 1851-1939 (Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 1988)

Harris, Neil. 
Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990)

Luckhurst, Kenneth W. 
The Story of Exhibitions (London: Studio, 1951)

Rydell, Robert. 
All the World’s a Fair: Visions of Empire of American International Expositions, 1876-1916 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984)
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