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` 0 one would suspect Brer Remus, is a kind, non-threatening old book of black folklore. The book of 34
· Rabbit as the outlaw riding black man to know and love. This Un- tales, as told by the kindly Uncle
on the bunkbed, the rebel cle Tom-Uncle Remus image of the Remus, sold 7,500 copies in the first
: It _ lurking near the diaper pail black man has stayed with us through month and a new edition came out ev-
- } and the mutineer hiding under the secu- the years. ery year until 1954. Walt Disney intro-
; rit blanket. But accordin to Robert While the narrator is a ealin , duced the ever o ular "Son of the
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- " Hemenway, chairman ofthe University Hemenway points out, the tales are South" about the tales in 1946, and
; of Kentucky’s English department, this about a ruthless, deceitful, anti-Chris- people have been humming"Zip-a-dee-
; well-known triekster is all of these. tian, who shirks work and steals the DOO-Dah" ever since. Although no black
In writingabook about black folklore food of those who do work. He won- actor had received an Oscar at that
J as a part of American literature, Hem- dered about the popularity of this crea— time, james Baskett, who portrayed
, enway realized the powerful influence ture and when it emerged in black folk- Uncle Remus, won a special honorary
of this fuzzy little creature in creating lore, Oscar for his role as "friend and story-
an American racial stereotype. Read by Brer Rabbit immediately became a teller to children ofthe worId."
children for over a hundred years, the chiIdren’s favorite after it was intro- Although Harris can take credit for
narrator of the Brer Rabbit tales, Uncle duced in 1880 in _]ocl Chandler Harris” Brer Rabbit’s widespread popularity,
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