Watermelons, nooses, and straight razors : stories from the Jim Crow Museum
(Book)
Author
Contributors
Irving, Debby writer of foreword.
Published
Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2018].
ISBN
1629634379, 9781629634371
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Subjects
LC Subjects
African Americans -- Segregation -- Collectibles.
African Americans -- Segregation -- History.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
African Americans in popular culture -- United States.
History.
Jim Crow Museum (Ferris State University)
Racism -- Collectibles -- United States.
Racism -- United States.
Racism in popular culture -- United States.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- United States -- History.
United States -- Race relations.
African Americans -- Segregation -- History.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
African Americans in popular culture -- United States.
History.
Jim Crow Museum (Ferris State University)
Racism -- Collectibles -- United States.
Racism -- United States.
Racism in popular culture -- United States.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- United States -- History.
United States -- Race relations.
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Published
Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2018].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xii, 258 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
ISBN
1629634379, 9781629634371
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-251) and index.
Description
Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors examines the origins and significance of several longstanding antiblack stories and the caricatures and stereotypes that support 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. Malcolm X and James Baldwin both refused to eat watermelon in front of white people. They were aware of the jokes and other stories about African Americans stealing watermelons, fighting over watermelons, even being transformed into watermelons. Did racial stories influence the actions of white fraternities and sororities who dressed in blackface and mocked black culture, or employees who hung nooses in their workplaces? What stories did the people who refer to Serena Williams and other dark-skinned athletes as apes and baboons hear? Is it possible that a white South Carolina police officer who shot a fleeing black man had never heard stories about scary black men with straight razors or other weapons? Antiblack stories still matter. Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors uses images from the Jim Crow Museum, the nation's largest publicly accessible collection of racist objects. These images are evidence of the social injustice that Martin Luther King Jr. referred to as "a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be exposed to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured." Each chapter concludes with a story from the author's journey, challenging the integrity of racial narratives. -- From back cover.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Pilgrim, D., & Irving, D. (2018). Watermelons, nooses, and straight razors: stories from the Jim Crow Museum . PM Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Pilgrim, David, 1959- and Debby Irving. 2018. Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories From the Jim Crow Museum. PM Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Pilgrim, David, 1959- and Debby Irving. Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories From the Jim Crow Museum PM Press, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Pilgrim, David, and Debby Irving. Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories From the Jim Crow Museum PM Press, 2018.
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