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Our gang : a racial history of The little rascals / Julia Lee and Henry Louis Gates, Jr

Lee, Julia Sun-Joo [Verfasser]

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016

Oxford : Oxford University Press

1 Online-Ressource : Illustrations (black and white)

Previously issued in print: 2015

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index

978-1-4529-5245-1 ; 978-0-81-669821-9

AP 46700 AP 59800

 

Our gang  USA  Filmwirtschaft  Ethnische Beziehungen  Rassismus 

 

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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 1922 to its television revival in the 1950s, reveals about black and white American culture - on either side of the silver screen.