Ceramic Uncles and Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influence on Culture

by Patricia A. Turner

Exploring white American popular culture of the past century and a half, Turner details subtle and not-so-subtle negative tropes and images of black people, from Uncle Tom and Aunt Jemima to jokes about Michael Jackson and Jesse Jackson. She feels that far too little has changed in terms of white stereotyping and its negative effects.

Genres: Nonfiction, History

272 pages, Paperback

Published November 29, 2002

Reviews

[Jon]

Not a fun book but extremely well written. I appreciated most of her arguments and agreed with them. The tv chapter seemed to be a stretch. It could be because I grew up watching many of the shows, but her conclusions still seemed a bit much.

[Karla]

I was inclined to read this after a recent controversial moment in Champaign (http://www.news-gazette.com/news/arts...).

Very interesting.

[LaDawn Fuhr]

Dated and with a glaring error that should have been corrected in reprints. Still, the author's message gets across. Really needs updating and the correction.