Wednesday 11 October 2017 at 17:27
Feuding impresarios, a white-but-not-white-enough elephant, and racist ads for soap — Ross Bullen on how a bizarre episode in circus history became an unlikely forum for discussing 19th-century theories of race, and inadvertently laid bare the ideological constructions at their heart.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/10/11/race-and-the-white-elephant-war-of-1884/