Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga

A Africa, Biography, Cultural book. Books like "Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga" are the reason I read historical accounts: to learn about...

An award-winning journalist reveals a little-known and shameful episode in American history, when an African man was used as a human zoo exhibit—a shocking story of racial prejudice, science, and tragedy in the early years of the twentieth century in the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Devil in the White City, and...

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Books like "Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga" are the reason I read historical accounts: to learn about atrocities committed by humanity that must be resisted in the future. I also appreciate seeing how history is rewritten, for better or for worse, by different actors. The book covers the trials of the capture and display... Slavery of people and minds, religion dousing facts, racism disguised as science or economic needs, denial of documented history by institutions and politicians.Sadly what transpired almost 100 years ago to the day continues to haunt our society and nation.The inability to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, our othering of people... I agree with other reviewers that this expose of the mind numbing racism of early twentieth century America absolutely needed to be written. But I also agree with their criticisms: that the author did not have enough material on Ota Benga himself and so padded the book with largely irrelevant back stories and detours. I add a few more...

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