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	Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga 3.63 avg rating — 919 ratings — published 2015 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business 3.66 avg rating — 341 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It by Robert W. McChesney (Editor), Craig Aaron (Contributor), Eric Alterman (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Love No Less: Two Centuries of African American Love Letters 4.37 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters from Black America 4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lyle Ashton Harris: Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs: Selections from the Ektachrome Archive by Lyle Ashton Harris (Photographer), Johanna Burton (Introduction), Vince Aletti (Contributor) 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Within the Veil: Black Journalists, White Media 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2000 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Africa's Fashion Diaspora by Elizabeth Way (Contributor), Pamela Newkirk (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Erica de Greef (contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Media Studies Journal 1968 by David Halberstam, Dan Hallin, Winant Sidle 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“One researcher, J.P. Gump found that the most profound shame results from the destruction of your subjectivity when "what you need, what you desire, and what you feel are of complete and utter insignificance.”
― Pamela Newkirk, Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga

tags: abuse, black, desire, emotional-abuse, history, physical-abuse, shame, slave, slavery

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“What emerges from the more than 200 letters in this volume is a textured, compelling, and unvarnished portrait of African American life that highlights our shared humanity”
― Pamela Newkirk, Letters from Black America

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“In all, the Exposition featured some ten thousand people. They included two thousand Native Americans, among them the famous Apache chief Geronimo, at the time a federal prisoner of war.”
― Pamela Newkirk, Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga

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