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Monday, February 29, 2016

These Racist Collectibles Will Make Your Skin Crawl

DAVID PILGRIM bought his first piece of racist memorabilia in the early 1970s, when he was a youngster in Mobile, Alabama. It was a set of salt and pepper shakers meant to caricature African Americans. "I purchased it and broke it" on purpose, recalls Pilgrim, who is black. Yet over the next few decades, he amassed a sizable collection of what he calls "contemptible collectibles"—once-common household objects and products that mock and stereotype black people...
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/02/david-pilgrim-understanding-jim-crow-racist-collectibles

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