by Lester Allyson Knibbs, Ph.D.
(formerly Hakeem Muhammad)
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"Ode to Ota Benga"
Burns, Ric. “Greetings From Coney Island” (The New York Times, 5/17/91, p. C1)
Kasson, John. Amusing the Million (New York: Hill & Wang, 1978)
Kyriazi, Gary. The Great American Amusement Parks (Secaucus: Citadel Press, 1976)
Snow, Richard. Coney Island, A Postcard Journey to the City of Fire (New York: Brightwaters Press, 1984)
Bridges, William. Gathering of Animals: An Unconventional History of the New York Zoological Society (New York: Harper and Row, 1974) “the standard account”
Grant, Madison. The Passing of the Great Race (New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1923), with introduction by Fairfield Osborn. “an example of the sort of racist thinking common at the museum and zoo during Ota’s day”
Hellman, Geoffrey. Bankers, Bones & Beetles (New York: Garden City, 1968)
Hornaday, William Temple. The Mind and Manners of Wild Animals
Horowitz, Helen. “Animal and Man in the New York Zoological Park” (New York History 56: 1975, pp. 426-55) “more critical view”
Preston, Douglas J. Dinosaurs In The Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986)
Cook, Adrian. The Armies of the Streets: The New York City Draft Riots of 1863 (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1974)
Harris, Joan Elizabeth. The Progressive Era in Smithtown, New York: A Study of Five Charitable Institutions (unpublished)
Mabee, Carleton. “Charity in Travail: Two Orphan Asylums for Blacks” (New York History LV, Jan. 1974, pp. 55-77)
Arnold, B.W. “Concerning the Negroes of the City of Lynchburg, Virginia” (Southern History Association Publications, x, 1906, pp. 19-30)
Greene, Lee J. Time’s Unfading Garden: Anne Spencer’s Life and Poetry (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977)