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Albinism in Culture: Film
For over 50 years, movies have misrepresented albinism's causes and characteristics, and perpetuated myths to create stand-ins for psychic dread.
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Albinism in Culture: Human Exhibits
Throughout the 19th century and into the 20th, persons with albinism were exhibited in sideshows and dime museums with other freaks and human oddities.
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Albinism in Culture: Literature
From the Bible to Dan Brown, writers have used albinism's whiteness to shade characters that are either too good or too evil for this world. Few survive.
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Albinism in Culture: Music
Though often maligned in book and film, persons with albinism can take pride in the achievements of singer-songwriters Edgar Winter, Salif Keita, and Yellowman.
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Albinism in Culture: Nonfiction
Albinism has such deep roots in the psyche that nonfiction writers often confuse the scientific with the superficial when writing about it.
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Albinism in Culture: The Press
Albinism is a media staple, but when journalists write about it, objectivity, facts, and the human element are often lost beneath the diminishing word "albino."
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Albinism in Culture: Visual Images
After centuries of myth and misuse, projects by photographer Rick Guidotti and filmmakers such as Mashawna Thompson are putting a human face on albinism.
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Albinism: An Introduction
Weighing albinism's psychic impact is as vital to understanding the human aspect of this genetic condition as isolating the genes that cause it.
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