Our gang : a racial history of The little rascals /

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...

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Main Author: Lee, Julia Sun-Joo, 1976- (Author)
Other Authors: Gates, Henry Louis, Jr (author of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
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