by Lester Allyson Knibbs, Ph.D.
(formerly Hakeem Muhammad)
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"Ode to Ota Benga"
Cable, George Washington. “The Dance in Place Congo” (in The Social Implications of Early Negro Music in The United States, Bernard Katz, ed., New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1969, pp. 31-47)
Cable, George. “The Story of Bras-Coupé” possibly in Creoles and Cajuns: Stories of Old Louisiana, by George Washington Cable, edited by Arlin Turner (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1959)
Debo, Angie. Geronimo (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1976)
Haller, John S. Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859-1900 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975)
Jayne, Caroline. String Figures (She showed Ota Benga a “Cat’s Cradle.” Ota did a string figure for her – first quickly, then at her request, slowly. She called it “Pygmy Diamonds.” She did not know why it resembled a Carolina form she knew. She called him a “bright little man.”)
Karnow, Stanley. In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines (New York: Random House, 1989)
Matthiessen, Peter. African Silences (New York: Random House, 1991)
Barnum, P.T. Barnum’s Own Story: The Autobiography of P.T. Barnum (Gloucester: Peter Smith, 1972)
Harris, Neil. HUMBUG: The Art Of P.T. Barnum (Boston/Toronto: Little, Brown & Company, 1973)
Saxon, A.H. P.T. BARNUM: The Legend and the Man (New York: Columbia University Press, 1989)
Buerkle, Jack and Barker, Danny. Bourbon Street Black: The New Orleans Black Jazzman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973)
Hair, William Ivy. Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976)
Kinser, Sam. Carnival, American Style: Mardi Gras at New Orleans and Mobile (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990)
Ventura, Michael. “Hear That Long Snake Moan” (Shadow Dancing in the USA, Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., 1985)
Williams, Martin. Jazz Masters of New Orleans (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1976)