1. Notes Towards a Cultural History of Pepe the Frog.
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2. The alt-right appropriation of Pepe is part of a much longer history of racialized cartoons, going back post-Civil War America.
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3. The stories of Br'er Rabbit (codified by Joel Chandler Harris from black & Native America lore) were metaphors for trickster slave.
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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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6. I don't want to say more about Herriman but
@m_tisserand's soon to be released biography will be a revelation:https://www.amazon.com/Krazy-George-Herriman-Black-White/dp/0061732990/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475792813&sr=1-1&keywords=krazy …3 replies 6 retweets 27 likes -
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7. Herriman's Krazy Kat was the template for funny animal cartoons of all sorts, from Disney to the Warner Bros. gang.
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8. One aspect of this tradition is that frogs (Flip the Frog, J. Michigan Frog, Kermit) are associated with blackness.
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9. I explain this in much greater depth here:https://newrepublic.com/article/137545/perversion-pepe-frog …
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