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7%OFFJulia Lee - Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals - 9780816698226 - V9780816698226
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Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals

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Description for Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APFA; JFD; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.

It was the age of Jim Crow, riddled with racial violence and unrest. But in the world of Our Gang, black and white children happily played and made mischief together. They even had their own black and white version of the KKK, the Cluck Cluck Klams—and the public loved it.

The story of race and Our Gang, or The Little Rascals, is rife with the contradictions and aspirations of the sharply conflicted, changing American society that was its theater. Exposing these connections for the first time, Julia Lee shows us how much this series, from the first silent shorts in ... Read more

In their checkered lives, and in the tumultuous life of the series, we discover an unexplored story of America, the messy, multiracial nation that found in Our Gang a comic avatar, a slapstick version of democracy itself.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816698226
SKU
V9780816698226
Shipping Time
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About Julia Lee
Julia Lee, assistant professor of English at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is author of The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel. She was named a 2014 Emerging Scholar by the magazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American ... Read more

Reviews for Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals
"Thoroughly engaging, Our Gang makes historically and politically clear the discriminations of the Jim Crow south and the ways the series softened, and in many cases contradicted, the virulent studio and audience racism of the day."—Ed Guerrero, New York University "Like the series it traces, Julia Lee’s book is a gem."—Henry Louis Gates Jr. "A wonderfully inviting study."—Publishers Weekly ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals


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