| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Christopher Robert Reed. "All the World is Here!" The Black Presence at White City. (Blacks in the Diaspora.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2000. Pp. xxx, 230. $39.95.

Christopher Robert Reed adds to the growing recent historiography surrounding world's fairs, more specifically the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. In this book, he addresses the presence and participation of those he refers to as black "diasporans," a group that includes blacks from around the world as well as African Americans. At the time of the exposition, several prominent African Americans, including Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells, contributed to a pamphlet entitled The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition, which complained about the lack of black representation on the planning commissions as well as the lack of a separate "Negro Exhibit" to showcase African-American accomplishments since slavery. Reed implies that the existence of this pamphlet has obscured the actual presence and participation of blacks in the exposition both in formal and informal capacities. With this book, he hopes to establish that the Columbian Exposition was, in fact, a pivotal event in the lives of those who attended it as well as a place to demonstrate black intellectual development and unite proponents of differing philosophies for racial uplift. Although Reed concentrates mainly on African-American participation in the fair, he also addresses the reactions of both blacks and whites to the exhibits from Dahomey and Haiti. . . .

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