Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors (eBook)

Stories from the Jim Crow Museum

David Pilgrim (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
272 Seiten
PM Press (Verlag)
978-1-62963-459-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.12.2017
• Vorwort: Debby Irving
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 200 x 200 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: antiblack • blackface • caricatures • Civil Rights • cultural artifacts • hate crimes • images • Injustice • James Baldwin • Ku Klux Klan • Malcolm X • Memorabilia • minstrel • objects • racial narratives • representationSambo • shocking history • Slavery • stereotypes • Symbols • Systemic Racism • taboos
• ISBN-10: 1-62963-459-X / 162963459X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62963-459-3 / 9781629634593