• Black Tropes and Stereotypes from Jim Crow to Prohibition

  • Oct 16 2024
  • Length: 35 mins
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Black Tropes and Stereotypes from Jim Crow to Prohibition

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  • Negative stereotypes surrounding Black people and alcohol were largely manufactured. In this episode, we get to the truth and uncover Black Americans' longstanding relationship with temperance.


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    Sources:

    The Forgotten History of Black Prohibitionism

    Black Temperance Movement

    Historical Overview of Alcohol in the African American Community by Kenneth Christmon

    Alcoholism Among Blacks by John E. Franklin, Jr.

    Addiction in the African American Community: The Recovery Legacies of Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X

    Saloon and Bar Employees in Kentucky, 1870-1920

    Blackface: The Sad History of Minstrel Shows

    Second Ku Klux Klan and ‘The Birth of a Nation’


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