Uncle Tom's Uncle

In today's Daily Dime, John Hollinger picks up on a few themes that are popular to 48MoH this season. We've recently written that this year's Spurs team is Tim Duncan and too little of everyone else. Hollinger agrees: …Tim Duncan is playing...

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Rather than holding his saxophone vertically, Lester Young held it high and to the right at a 45-degree angle. Herman Leonard/Getty Images Rather than holding his saxophone vertically, Lester Young held it high and to the right at a...

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...is a post Civil War African American freedom song, notably recorded by Odetta as part of the Spiritual Trilogy, on her "Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues" album from 1956. The fourth verse contains the line "No more tommin," where the word...

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Still from Edwin S. Porter's 1903 version of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was one of the first "full length" movies. The still shows Eliza telling Uncle Tom that she has been sold and that she is running away to save her child. A number of film...

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A 1901 stage adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin containing mixed elements of Harriet Beecher Stowe's original Christian martyr and the stock minstrel character of later adaptations Uncle Tom is a pejorative term for a black person who is...

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Byron's Don Juan (Penguin Classics version) Don Juan () is a satiric poem by Lord Byron , based on the legend of Don Juan , which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womaniser, but as someone easily seduced by women. It is a variation on...

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A stereotype is a commonly held public belief about specific social groups, or types of individuals. The concepts of "stereotype" and "prejudice" are often confused with many other different meanings. Stereotypes are standardized and simplified...

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