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The Race of Races: Ethnicity, Gender, Class, and Performance in Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show, 1888-1913
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The Race of Races: Ethnicity, Gender, Class, and Performance in Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show, 1888-1913
Yazar:
Webb, Alyce, author.
ISBN:
9780438072022
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1 electronic resource (265 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Laura Arata Committee members: Maria Beach; William Bryans; John Kinder.
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In 1883, William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody staged the first Wild West show to immense and lasting popularity. In 1886, a young Gordon William "Pawnee Bill" Lillie worked for the Wild West, and in 1888 separated from Cody to form his own show. The Wild West shows used performative aspects of ethnicity, gender, and class to tell an imperialistic story of white supremacy both within the country and internationally. Pawnee Bill's show incorporated traditional western characters like cowboys and cowgirls, American Indians, and Mexicans. After 1890, the show also included acts from the "East," such as supposed Cossacks or Bedouins, to add exoticism and to compare to western riding.
This project focuses on the metaphor of the "Race of Races," a popular act in the Wild West show. The "Race of Races" was, on the surface, merely a race, a contest of speed between horseback participants from different countries. But this act, like the rest of the Wild West, was inherently caught up in and depended upon notions of race, or ethnicity. Audiences watched a white cowboy, Mexican vaquero, American Indian, Russian Cossack, and Middle-eastern Arab speed around the arena and gallop toward the finish line. In the arena, the winner of the race could be anyone: the race was not fixed, and so whoever outmaneuvered his opponents won the day.
But outside the arena the race most certainly was fixed. In Victorian America, a person's ability to reach their economic and cultural goals depended upon meeting certain expectations of class, gender, and ethnicity. Through conscious use of these notions, white stars such as the Lillies were able to perform a higher class, make the lie come true, and achieve upward social mobility. But other ethnic groups had different definitions of what it meant to win the race, and so utilized different strategies to do so. Native Americans and Georgians sought financial stability for their families back home, so for them, the race was one of socioeconomic class. Meanwhile, Mexicans and Syrians tried to align themselves with whiteness, so the way they ran the race focused on ethnicity.
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