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Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga
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2016 NAACP Image Award Winner
Winner of the 2016 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction
An award-winning journalist reveals a little-known and shameful episode in American history, when an African man was used as a human zoo exhibita 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 Medical Apartheid.
In 1904, Ota Benga, a young Congolese pygmya perso...