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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Pilgrim, David, 1959- author.     Subjects     Jim Crow Museum (Ferris State University)     African Americans -- Segregation -- History.     African Americans -- Social conditions.     Racism -- United States.     United States -- Race relations.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Pilgrim, David, 1959- author.       by title:      Watermelons, nooses,...         MARC Display

Watermelons, nooses, and straight razors : stories from the Jim Crow Museum / David Pilgrim. by Pilgrim, David, 1959- author. Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2018] Subjects Jim Crow Museum (Ferris State University)   African Americans -- Segregation -- History.   African Americans -- Social conditions.   Racism -- United States.   United States -- Race relations. ISBN:  9781629634371 (paperback) : 1629634379 (paperback) Description:  xii, 258 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm Contents:  Foreword / Debby Irving -- First words -- Not quite human -- Watermelon cravers -- Razor-toting criminals -- Menaces who deserve to be hanged -- Hated by dogs -- Black people and niggers -- Final words. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 305.89607 Pi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 305.89607 Pi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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