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The Reason Why Colored American Is Not in World's Columbian Exposition - The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian Literature (Paperback)
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The Reason Why Colored American Is Not in World's Columbian Exposition - The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian Literature (Paperback)
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Expressly intended to demonstrate America's national progress
toward utopia, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
pointedly excluded the contributions of African Americans. For
them, being left outside the gates of the "White City" merely
underscored a more general exclusion from America's bright future.
Exhibits at the fair were controlled by all-white committees, and
those that acknowledged African Americans at all, such as the
famous Aunt Jemima pancake exhibit, ridiculed and denigrated them.
Many African Americans saw the racist policies of the World's
Columbian Exposition as mirroring, framing, and reinforcing the
larger horrors confronting blacks throughout the United States,
where white supremacy meant segregation, second-class citizenship,
and sometimes mob violence and lynching. In response to the
politics of exclusion that governed the fair, and of its larger
implications, several prominent African Americans resolved to
publish a pamphlet that would catalog the achievements of African
Americans since the abolition of slavery while articulating the
persistent political economy of apartheid in the American South.
The authors of this remarkable document included the antilynching
crusader Ida B. Wells, the former slave and abolitionist Frederick
Douglass, the educator Irvine Garland Penn, and the lawyer and
newspaper publisher Ferdinand L. Barnett. An eloquent statement of
protest and pride, The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in
the World's Columbian Exposition reminds us that struggles over
cultural representation are nothing new in American life. Robert
Rydell's introduction provides insight into the sometimes
conflicting strategies employed by African Americans as they strove
to represent themselves at a cultural event that was widely
regarded as a defining moment in American history.
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