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Article: The Paper Bag Principle: Of the Myth and the Motion of Colorism
- Article from:
- Journal of American Folklore
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright American Folklore Society, Inc. Summer 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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This article, extracted from a larger study, is attentive to the national folk culture of African-American communities-especially rumor and legend-in a number of city centers. The study begins with Washington, D.C., as a representative model to examine the role of complexion-related lore in black neighborhoods, organizations, and institutions, and then extends outward to other urban areas. Complexion lore, the article argues, functioned as a sophisticated negotiation of racism, wherein black residents complicated American urban principles of inclusion and exclusion by integrating color notions into institutional oral history.
Attention to the content of the rumors, however unsettling, ...
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Article: A BROWN paper bag goes to the doctor.(Features)
Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England);
January 27, 2008 ;
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...Byline: MIKE LOCKLEY A BROWN paper bag goes to the doctor after suffering dizzy ... said the doctor, gravely, on the brown paper bag's return. "We discovered from your ... Haemophilia!" shrieked the brown paper bag, "that can't be right, doctor ...
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