1. Notes Towards a Cultural History of Pepe the Frog.
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4. Out of Harris' work grew whole tradition of funny animals as race allegories, best seen in Herriman's Krazy Kat.
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5. Herriman was light-skinned African American who passed for white, whose family had deep roots in creole (racially-mixed) New Orleans.
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And then Bugs Bunny was a take on Br'er Rabbit, as reimagined by assimilated Jews. RT
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also, the trickster hare has roots that go back to African storytelling
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as in Roman literature: not necessarily a racial archetype
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