Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors : Stories from the Jim Crow Museum EPUB
by David Pilgrim
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All groups tell stories, but some groups have the power to impose their stories on others, to label others, stigmatise others, paint others as undesirables - and to have these stories presented as scientific fact, God's will, or wholesome entertainment.
Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors examines the origins and significance of several longstanding anti-black stories and the caricatures and stereotypes that undergird them.
Here readers will find representations of the lazy, childlike Sambo, the watermelon-obsessed pickaninny, the buffoonish minstrel, the subhuman savage, the loyal and contented mammy and Tom, and the menacing, razor-toting coon and brute.
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- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:PM Press
- Publication Date:01/11/2017
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- ISBN:9781629634593
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:PM Press
- Publication Date:01/11/2017
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- ISBN:9781629634593