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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1700
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 26, 2007 - 10:22 am: | 
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Listen here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7488550
Talk of the Nation, February 19, 2007 · In the 1950s, Uncle Tom's Cabin went from being a literary phenomenon to an object of scorn, with its title character symbolizing black self-loathing. Henry Louis Gates has re-examined the book in a new annotated edition.
Guest:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chair, African and African-American Studies Department at Harvard
Hollis Robbins, assisted on notes on The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin; member of the faculty at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 3730
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 26, 2007 - 11:43 am: |
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I heard Gates talking about this on NPR the other day, where his message was eagerly received by the human garbage that runs that network.
He sits and extols Uncle Tom because he sat and let Simon Legree beat him to death and calls him a hero. This is the kind of hero white liberals like, a Negro who will die rather than resist.
Uncle Tom was no hero. He was a pathetic victim. Had he been a hero he would have burnt down the plantation and killed Simon Legree.
That is what John Wayne does when somebody wrongs him.
Gates is a joke. |
Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 1922
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 01, 2007 - 06:36 pm: |
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"This is the kind of hero white liberals like, a Negro who will die rather than resist."
Really? Ok....so if Uncle Tom is the kind of black man white liberals enjoy, then what is the black preference for white conservatives? Just curious.....
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Schakspir
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Username: Schakspir
Post Number: 882
Registered: 12-2005
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 10:38 pm: |
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Ntfs: Really? Ok....so if Uncle Tom is the kind of black man white liberals enjoy, then what is the black preference for white conservatives? Just curious.....
Schakspir: Kola Boof. |
Steve_s
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Username: Steve_s
Post Number: 236
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 10:25 pm: |
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Ntfs_encryption,
I took a couple of courses with this teacher a few years ago, including one on Uncle Tom's Cabin. If it's still offered, it's definitely worth taking. It would be at the Barnes and Noble book club.
http://www.msmnyc.edu/catalog/facbio.asp?fid=1031031760
Great teacher, however, it's hard to compare anyone to Henry Louis Gates. I've seen this new annotated edition in the bookstore which might be interesting to read if the library gets it in.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/books/review/Gates.t.html?ex=1174708800&en=7a4 9922a19b60e78&ei=5070
It's not as if everyone who reads Uncle Tom's Cabin today doesn't recognize the similarity to the story of Margaret Garner and Beloved, which hadn't been written when SNCC issued its position paper. Eliza's escape from Kentucky across the frozen Ohio River and her mother Cassy's infanticide were written years before the events which inspired Beloved. It was written in reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lhr/19.1/br_10.html
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