Books by Dr. David Pilgrim
Watermelons Nooses and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum
David Pilgrim on Stateside from Michigan Radio talking about the Jim Crow Museum Expansion
By Stateside from Michigan Radio July 29th, 2021 Dr. David Pilgrim is a museum curator at Ferris State University’s Jim…
David Pilgrim on Courageous Conversations
Courageous Conversations on WLVT August 7th, 2020 Join us as we talk with Dr. David Pilgrim, Founder and Curator of…
David Pilgrim on This Happened with Henry Veguilla
Collecting Jim Crow: Objects of Intolerance As a teen, David Pilgrim started collecting all sorts of racist artifacts. Little did…
Watermelons, Nooses and Straight Razors in CHOICE
By C. R. King CHOICE July 2018 This important and urgent book provides a powerful corrective to the rise of…
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…