Ode to Ota Benga by Lester Allyson Knibbs, Ph.D. (formerly Hakeem Muhammad) _________________________ Bibliography Alphabetical by Author (E-J) A-D K-S T-Z By Category "Ode to Ota Benga"
Emerson, Barbara.  Leopold II of the Belgians, King of Colonialism (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1979) Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed.  MICROPAEDIA: s.w. "Congo Free State"
Farrant, Leda.  Tippu-Tip and the East African Slave Trade (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1975) Fiedler, Leslie.  Freaks (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978) Findling, John.  Historical Dictionary of World’s Fairs (New York: Greenwood Press, 1990)
Gann, L.H. and Duignan, Peter.  The Rules of Belgian Africa 1884-1914 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979) Gibson, Gordon.  Samuel Phillips Verner in the Kasai (unpublished) Gould, Stephen Jay.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) 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” Greene, Lee J.  Time’s Unfading Garden: Anne Spencer’s Life and Poetry (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977) Greenhalgh, Paul.  Ephemeral Vistas: The Expositions Universelles, Great Exhibitions and World’s Fairs, 1851-1939 (Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 1988)
Hagerfors, Lennart.  The Whales In Lake Tanganyika (New York: Grove Press, 1989), fictionalized account of Bula Mutadi (Stanley) Hair, William Ivy. Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976) Hall, Richard.  Stanley (London: St. James Place, 1974) Haller, John S.  Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859-1900 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975) Hallet, Jean-Pierre.  Pygmy Kitabu (New York: Random House, 1973) Harris, Joan Elizabeth.  The Progressive Era in Smithtown, New York: A Study of Five Charitable Institutions (unpublished) Harris, Neil.  Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990) Harris, Neil.  HUMBUG: The Art Of P.T. Barnum (Boston/Toronto: Little, Brown & Company, 1973) Hellman, Geoffrey.  Bankers, Bones & Beetles (New York: Garden City, 1968) Hinde, Sidney.  The Fall of The Congo Arabs (London: Methuen & Co., 1897) 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” Hyland, Paul.  The Black Heart: A Voyage into Central Africa (New York: Holt, c1988)
Inglis, Brian.  Roger Casement (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1974, c1973])
Jackson, John G.  Introduction to African Civilizations (Secaucus, New Jersey: The Citadel Press, 1970) Jayne, Caroline.  String Figures (She showed Ota a “Cat’s Cradle.”  Ota Benga 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.”)
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