By C. R. King CHOICE July 2018 This important and urgent book provides a powerful corrective to the rise of…
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Watermelons, Nooses and Straight Razors in Publishers Weekly
Publishers WeeklyMarch 5th, 2018 Sociologist and museum curator Pilgrim provocatively confronts racist stereotypes using objects from the Jim Crow Museum…
This Professor Has Collected American Racism in a College’s Basement
By Julian WyllieThe Chronicle of Higher EducationApril 5th, 2018 David Pilgrim says the first racist object he acquired, at 12…
Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum: A Review
By Phyllis Wilson MooreSouthern Literary ReviewJuly 24th, 2019 Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum (PM…
An Interview with Dr. David Pilgrim
By Megan HayesAppalachian MagazineApril 10th, 2017 “Dr. David Pilgrim is a public speaker and leading expert on issues relating to…
Remembering Jim Crow in the Age of Trump: An Analysis of the Rhetorical Functions of the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
By Christopher A. House Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric Volume 7, Issue 1pp. 1-18 The first one hundred days of President…
Challenge Racist Narratives with Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors
by David PilgrimBoingBoingOctober 25th, 2017 Pre-order Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors through Kickstarter to help cover the expensive printing costs…
Watermelons, Nooses and Straight Razors – An Interview with David Pilgrim
by Zach RobertsVisu.NewsNovember 1st, 2017 This is the first in a monthly series where we feature a crowdfunded project. The…
RaceNYT: is This America?
Is Childish Gambino (Donald Glover) calling out America for “slippin’ up” with his newest music video, “This is America”? The…
Ralph Northman was far from alone: Why blackface keeps coming up
By Nichelle SmithUSA TodayFebruary 7th, 2019 Everyday there seems to be a new revelation that somewhere in the past, a…