Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum by David Pilgrim, Debby Irving

Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum

David Pilgrim, Debby Irving

272 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history race reflective slow-paced

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Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors examines the origins and significance of several longstanding anti-black stories and the caricatures and stereotypes that undergird them. It features images from the Jim Crow Museum, the nation's largest pu...

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