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Amusement At The Abnormal
[I]t is neither lack of imagination nor commercialism that is driving the freaks from their comfortable position. They were doomed from the day when the public began to realize what they really were....
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Title: Amusement At The Abnormal
Creator: n/a
Date: March 19, 1908
Format: Article
Publication: The Nation
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: pp.254-255
Keywords: Advocacy; Circus; Cognitive Disability; Diagnoses & Diseases; Economics; Employment; Entertainment; Entertainment, Leisure & Recreation; Freak Show; Identity; Labor & Commerce; Media; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Physical Disability; Popular Culture; Psychiatric Disability; Social Welfare & Communities
Topics: Mass Media, Culture & The Arts; Science, Health & Technology; Social Movements & Advocacy