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During a Senate Finance Subcommittee meeting, Republican Senator Pete Goicoechea of Eureka told his fellow lawmakers he was worried about creating a “tar baby” in state policy.
The term is considered by many to be a racial slur that stems from the stories of Uncle Remus, a post-Civil War fictional character, who has more recently been seen to perpetuate Black stereotypes and whitewash the atrocities of slavery.
Goicoechea said he meant no offense by using the word.
“It s a term I ve used most of my life, ever since I was a little kid,” he said. “I clearly didn t intend to. mean to offend anybody, and if I did I sincerely apologize, and I ll pay a lot more attention in the future.”
President Joe Biden announced changes Monday to the Paycheck Protection Program to target more federal pandemic assistance to the nation's smallest businesses and ventures owned by women and people of color.
This week, the newsletter is all in the family, with a profile of the legendary Uncle Remus Saucy Fried Chicken and its founding family, plus Cocina Paulis, a family operation that is one of the area’s few flour tortilla makers.
, 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