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Feb. 18th, 2011 01:20 pm
pantryslut: (harold lloyd)
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The history of the Circassian Beauty sideshow attraction has got to be one of the hottest slabs of fucked-up intersectional fail ever.

Date: 2011-02-18 10:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bifemmefatale.livejournal.com
Weren't most human sideshow attractions giant slabs of fail? Except for maybe the strong man, they were all fucked up and squicky.

Date: 2011-02-18 10:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pantryslut.livejournal.com
It's debatable. Certainly very few were fail-free. I might downgrade some to merely problematic. Circassian Beauties are not among that group.

Date: 2011-02-19 03:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anarqueso.livejournal.com
I've been reading about this in The History of White People. There's some complex history behind it that's a tangled remnant of European slavery and tribalism, American racialization of slavery, and general imperialism. It's a hot mess indeed.

Which reminds me, I need to finish that book. It's amazing.

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