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03375aam a22004578i 4500 001 15A3BFF2F70611E582760BA0DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160331010051 008 150821s2016 mnu b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2015031957 020 $a 0816698228 (pb) 020 $a 9780816698226 (pb) 020 $a 081669821X (hardback) 020 $a 9780816698219 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)919202209 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 $a PN1995.9.O8 $b L44 2016 050 00 $a PN1995.9.O8 $b L44 2016 084 $a SOC031000 $a SOC052000 $a SOC031000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Lee, Julia Sun-Joo, $d 1976- 245 10 $a Our gang : $b a racial history of The little rascals / $c Julia Lee. 263 $a 1512. 264 1 $a Minneapolis : $b University of Minnesota Press, $c 2016. 300 $a xxi, 337 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: Foreword / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Introduction: All of Us -- 1. The Eternal Boy -- 2. A Boy and His Gang -- 3. 100% American -- 4. Sambo's Awakening -- 5. Everyman -- 6. The New Negro -- 7. Movie-Made Children -- 8. The Good Soldier -- 9. The Little Rascals -- 10. The Good Old Days -- Epilogue: Coming Home. 520 $a "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. Behind the scenes, we find unconventional men like Hal Roach and his gag writers, whose Rascals tapped into powerful American myths about race and childhood. We meet the four black stars of the series--Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison, Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Matthew "Stymie" Beard, and Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas--the gang within the Gang, whose personal histories Lee pursues through the passing years and shifting political landscape. 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. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 630 00 $a Our Gang films $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a African Americans in the motion picture industry $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African Americans in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Racism in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Race relations in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures. 941 $a 4 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020023941.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20161115071232.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826043120.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20160331012230.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=15A3BFF2F70611E582760BA0DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search