Understanding Jim Crow
Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4154717 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Cassanello (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1108-1108 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaw612 |
| OpenAlex | W2589475222 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
David Pilgrim has spent his life and career collecting and contextualizing memorabilia and educating scholars and popular audiences alike about the origins and perpetuation of black stereotypes. As a young child in segregated Mobile, Alabama, he became curiously fascinated by white images of blacks on everyday objects, and later as a sociology professor he amassed an unrivaled collection of Jim Crow artifacts that became the basis for the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia located at Ferris State University, his home institution. Understanding Jim Crow is unlike books typically reviewed for academic journals. It is part memoir, lesson plan, study of material culture, and photo collection featuring ephemera from the museum. The book is a history and analysis of the origins and features of modern African American stereotypes found in American popular culture. All of the archetypes are covered in some detail, including the coon, brute, Jezebel, and tragic mulatto. Pilgrim deconstructs the origin of each character and then demonstrates not only the evolution of that character but also where that character is featured in our twenty-first-century popular subconscious. He argues that these images never go away; they are just repurposed and repackaged for new generations
Art history · Character (mathematics · Ephemera · Griffin · Media studies · Memoir · Pilgrim · Popular culture · Sociology · State (computer science · Subconscious · White (mutation · Anthropology · Classics · Critical Race Theory in Education · Education Systems and Policy · History · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |