{"product_id":"our-gang-9780816698226","title":"Our Gang","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Thoroughly engaging, \u003ci\u003eOur Gang\u003c\/i\u003e makes historically and politically clear the discriminations of the Jim Crow south and the ways the series softened, and in many cases contradicted, the virulent studio and audience racism of the day.\"—Ed Guerrero, New York University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Like the series it traces, Julia Lee’s book is a gem.\"—Henry Louis Gates Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A wonderfully inviting study.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[An] agile and insightful cultural history.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Julia Lee gives a degree of depth and context to these four talented performers and their work in \u003ci\u003eOur Gang: A Racial History of the Little Rascals\u003c\/i\u003e. By foregrounding the stories of the black actors in the series, she uncovers how black America’s attitude towards its representation by Hollywood evolved throughout the 20th Century.\"—\u003ci\u003ePopMatters.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOur Gang \u003c\/i\u003eis not one of those academically written film books clogged with jargon, but a fully fleshed-out and colorful pop-culture history: of Hal Roach, of the Roach Studios lot and both early Hollywood and L.A. culture.\"—\u003ci\u003eLA Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An engaging new book.\"—\u003ci\u003ePasatiempo\/Santa Fe New Mexican\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An impressive study of how the US’s racial history reverberated in the series and how it became an integral part of American history.\"—\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An excellent work of scholarship on an important part of America’s twentieth-century popular culture.\"—\u003ci\u003eStudies in American Humor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book provides an insightful and coherent resource for students and scholars, as well as general readers, who are interested in film history, American media, and cultural studies.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of African American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword \u003cbr\u003eHenry Louis Gates, Jr.\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: All of Us\u003cbr\u003e1. The Eternal Boy\u003cbr\u003e2. A Boy and His Gang\u003cbr\u003e3. 100% American\u003cbr\u003e4. Sambo’s Awakening\u003cbr\u003e5. Everyman \u003cbr\u003e6. The New Negro\u003cbr\u003e7.Movie-Made Children\u003cbr\u003e8.The Good Soldier\u003cbr\u003e9.The Little Rascals\u003cbr\u003e10. The Good Old Days\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Coming Home\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eBibliographic Essay\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405978771799,"sku":"9780816698226","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816698226.jpg?v=1730494122","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/our-gang-9780816698226","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}