, published this month by Coach House Books.
Thompson, a Ryerson University assistant professor in the School of Creative Industries, specializes in 19th century Black history and visual culture. In Uncle
, she traces the social, cultural and political tendrils of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
, exploring how the figure of Tom morphs from a heroic enslaved man into a trope, an insult and the inspiration for generations of theatrical interpretations, films, radio and TV characters, and even consumer products. Follow Thompson on twitter at @DrCherylT.
Vaudeville was not the only major institution using nostalgia to shape popular notions of race and gender in the late nineteenth century. At the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, American audiences became increasingly obsessed with nostalgia for the antebellum South. Human displays as entertainment enticed late-nineteenth-century white middle-class audiences and continued unti
The breakfast foods brand formerly known as Aunt Jemima has a new name and likeness, courtesy of parent company PepsiCo. and its subsidiary Quaker Oats.
Aunt Jemima finally has a new name
The breakfast foods brand formerly known as Aunt Jemima finally has a new name and logo.The name Aunt Jemima, which has long been criticized as a.
Posted: Feb 9, 2021 2:34 PM
Posted By: CNN
The breakfast foods brand formerly known as Aunt Jemima finally has a new name and logo.
The name Aunt Jemima, which has long been criticized as a racist caricature of a Black woman stemming from slavery, will be replaced with the Pearl Milling Company name and logo on the former brand s new packaging, according to parent company PepsiCo. We are starting a new day with Pearl Milling Company. A new day rooted in the brand s historic beginnings and its mission to create moments that matter at the breakfast table, a PepsiCo spokesperson told CNN Business.