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freak show
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freak show
n → Monstrositätenshow f


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These years saw so-called freaks and Native Americans put on display in circuses and freak shows and the transcontinental railroad built by ever-restricted Chinese men.
Never One Nation: Freaks, Savages, and Whiteness in U.S. Popular ... by Namias, June / Journal of Southern History
The exhibition's combination of didacticism with morbid titillation also harks back to old horror movies and freak shows.
Drug freak show by Sullum, Jacob / Reason
up for display, freak shows asked their audiences to dwell implicitly on the normative meanings of the body: particularly, what it meant to be "white" or "black.
Freak shows, spectacles, and carnivals: reading Jonathan Demme's ... by Wardi, Anissa Janine / African American Review
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