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Our Gang - A Racial History of The Little Rascals (Paperback)
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Our Gang - A Racial History of The Little Rascals (Paperback)
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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. 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.
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