Illustration of Siamese white elephant featured in A Pictorial Geography of the World, 1849.
Featured on PDR in the essay Race and the White Elephant War of 1884
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.
Also appearing in the essay…
White Elephant
Date
1849
From
A Pictorial Geography of the World
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