{"product_id":"our-gang-a-racial-history-of-the-little-rascals-paperback-softback-9780816698226","title":"Our Gang; A Racial History of the Little Rascals (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816698226","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOur Gang\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Racial History of the Little Rascals\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJulia Lee (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816698226\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 29 December 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 48\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.506 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Thoroughly engaging, \u003ci\u003eOur Gang\u003c\/i\u003e makes historically and politically clear the discriminations of the Jim Crow south and the ways the series softened, and in many cases contradicted, the virulent studio and audience racism of the day.\"-Ed Guerrero, New York University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Like the series it traces, Julia Lee’s book is a gem.\"-Henry Louis Gates Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A wonderfully inviting study.\"-\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[An] agile and insightful cultural history.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Julia Lee gives a degree of depth and context to these four talented performers and their work in \u003ci\u003eOur Gang: A Racial History of the Little Rascals\u003c\/i\u003e. By foregrounding the stories of the black actors in the series, she uncovers how black America’s attitude towards its representation by Hollywood evolved throughout the 20th Century.\"-\u003ci\u003ePopMatters.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOur Gang \u003c\/i\u003eis not one of those academically written film books clogged with jargon, but a fully fleshed-out and colorful pop-culture history: of Hal Roach, of the Roach Studios lot and both early Hollywood and L.A. culture.\"-\u003ci\u003eLA Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An engaging new book.\"-\u003ci\u003ePasatiempo\/Santa Fe New Mexican\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An impressive study of how the US’s racial history reverberated in the series and how it became an integral part of American history.\"-\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An excellent work of scholarship on an important part of America’s twentieth-century popular culture.\"-\u003ci\u003eStudies in American Humor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The book provides an insightful and coherent resource for students and scholars, as well as general readers, who are interested in film history, American media, and cultural studies.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of African American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was the age of Jim Crow, riddled with racial violence and unrest. But in the world of \u003ci\u003eOur Gang\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story of race and \u003ci\u003eOur Gang\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eThe Little Rascals\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eRascals\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eOur Gang\u003c\/i\u003e a comic avatar, a slapstick version of democracy itself. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword \u003cbr\u003eHenry Louis Gates, Jr.\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: All of Us\u003cbr\u003e1. The Eternal Boy\u003cbr\u003e2. A Boy and His Gang\u003cbr\u003e3. 100% American\u003cbr\u003e4. Sambo’s Awakening\u003cbr\u003e5. Everyman \u003cbr\u003e6. The New Negro\u003cbr\u003e7.Movie-Made Children\u003cbr\u003e8.The Good Soldier\u003cbr\u003e9.The Little Rascals\u003cbr\u003e10. The Good Old Days\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Coming Home\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eBibliographic Essay\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570086375704,"sku":"9780816698226","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/our-gang-a-racial-history-of-the-little-rascals-paperback-softback-9780816698226","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}