#uncle remus

[jt1674]

#frank zappa #the crux of the biscuit #uncle remus

[uwmspeccoll]

Lunar New Year 2023

Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate! Lunar New Year is celebrated in countries all over the world, though it is largely celebrated in Asia and is sometimes called Chinese New Year or Korean New Year or Vietnamese New Year, etc. depending on which country’s celebrations one is referring to. In Chinese, it is most often called the Spring Festival. 

This lunar year is the year of the Rabbit (although in Vietnam is it the year of the Cat!), so we are sharing these stories of Brer Rabbit’s adventures as told by Ennis Rees and illustrated by Edward Gorey. More of Brer Rabbit’s Tricks was published in 1968 by Young Scott Books. 

Brer Rabbit stories originate in the African diaspora and were told widely among enslaved people in the American South. The stories were then co-opted by white American authors, for example in the “Uncle Remus” tales written by Joel Chandler Harris and Disney’s film Song of the South. The stories in More of Brer Rabbits Tricks were developed based on Harris’s tellings of the stories. 

-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

#Brer Rabbit #Br'er Rabbit #Lunar New Year #Chinese New Year #Ennis Rees #Edward Gorey #More of Brer Rabbit's Tricks #tricksters #Uncle Remus #Joel Chandler Harris #Song of the South #Young Scott Books #Alice

[johnnyappleseede]

Vintage Penguin Classics

“Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure”, 1985 print

“Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings”, 1982 print

“Utopia”, 1965 print

“The Canterbury Tales”, 1967 print

#vintage #Penguin Classics #Chaucer #Fanny Hill #Uncle Remus #Utopia #American

[oldshowbiz]

1960.

The NAACP's War on Racial Stereotypes and the N-word.

#civil rights era #NAACP #uncle remus #mark twain

[acmeoop]

Br’er Rabbit Character Study (1946)

#40s #concept art #character design #disney #song of the south #uncle remus #brer rabbit

[orionchildofhades]

having a field day now, discovering the library of my new school

this was too precious for me not to share

I allowed myself to censor the name of my school

#marauders #the marauders #remus lupin #moony #uncle remus #wolfstar #harry potter #harry james potter #harry calling him uncle moony #or remus here

[tymime]

I’m willing to admit that Song of the South isn’t exactly ideal in it’s depiction of of black people in the post-Civil War era. It’s a very Disney-fied version of an old-time Southern plantation. That much is obvious. That said, I’m certain that no one involved in the film intended it to be racist. It doesn’t depict Remus or any of the other black characters in a negative light. In fact, Remus is probably the smartest, wisest character in the whole cast. By contrast, the white characters generally tend to be very dumb and/or annoying, and in some cases bordering on disturbing.

I’m gonna be honest- I don’t actually enjoy the live-action parts very much. The plot relies way too heavily on important things being unsaid, and as I said, I find many of the characters off-putting in one way or another, especially the kids. In contrast, I find Remus and Tempy to be very likeable and charming.

It’s the animated segments that I really love. The animal characters are delightful, especially the villainous Br’er Fox, and the animation is among the best the Disney studio put out in the 1940s. The setting and characters have almost endless potential, as evidenced by how many stories Joel Chandler Harris collected, and especially the Disney comics, which have been going on in some form or another for decades now.

I think it’s very likely that if Disney had only adapted the stories into animated form, and didn’t bother with the live-action parts at all, the characters wouldn’t be half as controversial as they are now.

So it really does pain me to see Splash Mountain being replaced. I totally understand that Disney doesn’t want to appear racist, but I’m pretty sure destroying a beloved theme park ride that millions of people have enjoyed for over three decades isn’t the way to do it.

I adore Splash Mountain. I’ve been a fan of it long before I even heard of Song of the South. It’s fantastically well-made, from the music, the animatronics, the sets... the whole thing just oozes rustic charm. I don’t fully understand what it is about it, but I find the ride almost magical in a way. (It might have something to do with my Southern roots- my grandfather on my mother’s side grew up in small town in Arkansas during the Great Depression, and loved bluegrass and folk music.) Whatever it is, I actually like it better than Song of the South in many ways. I’m going to miss it dearly. Between this and that awful Mickey ride they’ve shoehorned into Toon Town, I’m not sure I could ever go back to Disneyland without breaking down and crying. I might just have to go to Tokyo Disneyland instead- provided that they don’t replace their version too, which hopefully will never happen.

Is that what you want, Disney? To make people cry because you destroyed cherished childhood memories?

I like The Princess and the Frog quite a bit, but it doesn’t inspire me the same way Br’er Rabbit’s world does. So I’ll admit that I’m a bit biased. I’m sure there are young black people out there who love it a lot, and appreciate that Disney went out of their way to give them a princess of their own.

The problem is, is that giving Splash Mountain a new coat of paint isn’t really going to fix anything. It’s clear to me that all that will happen is that the explicit references to Song of the South will be removed and replaced, and everything else will remain the same. Most likely the old animatronics will be singing songs from The Princess and the Frog, and I really can’t imagine how they’re going to do that without it being extremely awkward, especially considering that most of them are tied to the plot. I’m certain that as soon as it opens Tiana’s Bayou Adventure is going to be known as “the ride that used to be Splash Mountain”. Uninformed people are guaranteed to make snarky comments like “Hey, did you know this ride used to be racist??”. The shadow of Song of the South is going to forever loom over it.

I can’t help but wonder if anybody’s opinion was considered before such a drastic (and likely poor) decision was made. Was there a poll among Disney’s black and mixed-race employees asking what they thought? Or was it just a bunch of white executives who suddenly came up with the idea? Is this all just a huge PR stunt to make the company look good? I’m also suspicious about how it took them so long to decide to do this. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I never heard of any significant objections raised regarding Splash Mountain until a few years ago. You’d think that, back in the 1980s, somebody would have said, “Hey, you might wanna reconsider building this”. Heck, it was even featured in Disneyland Adventures as recently as 2011, with Br’er Rabbit and everything! You can still buy the game on Steam right now!

I guess what I’m saying is that, when it comes to racism in Disney media, it ain’t no Peter Pan.

I just wish Disney would own up to Song of the South and stop pretending it doesn’t exist. They should just rerelease it already, so that people can make up their own minds about whether or not it’s racist. Keeping it hidden away just makes it seem worse than it really is. Putting it on Disney+ with a warning at the beginning would be enough. But if they wanted to go the whole nine yards, they could make a full-length documentary about it, explaining the movie’s history and its context, along with interviews with African-American celebrities and historians. Whoopi Goldberg could narrate, since she’s already well-known for introducing cartoons with problematic depictions of non-white cultures, some much more blatantly racist than Song of the South ever was. I even came up with a title they can use: A Man Named Remus.

I suppose I’m being a bit apologist about this whole thing. I’m a white guy after all, so you should definitely take my opinion with a grain of salt. I just don’t want something I love to disappear forever, that’s all...

#splash mountain #song of the south #uncle remus #brer rabbit #brer fox #brer bear #tw racism #racism #unpopular opinion #disney #disneyland #animation

[milleeeeeee]

u can’t tell me sirius didn’t put on Uncle Remus by Frank Zappa every chance he got just to piss of remus a little

remus secretly admires it

#marauders #dead gay wizards #remus lupin #sirius black #wizarding world #coptp #wolfstar #uncle remus #frank zappa #ao3 #the cadence of part time poets #motswolo #the marauders #band fanfiction #marauders fandom #incorrect hp quotes #incorrect quote #ao3 fanfic #hp fandom #sirius love to keep remus on his toes #hehe

[marine-indie-gal]

Day 21 of Inktober, An African Folk-Figure by the name, "Brer Rabbit".

A Central Folk Figure of a Mischievous Animal Trickster from the Uncle Remus stories (which were told around by the African-Americans of the Southern United States as well as African Descendants of the Caribbean).

Adults would usually tell stories to Children about this Rabbit Character (who's very similar to Anansi, the African Spider God). Brer Rabbit was said to represent the Enslaved Africans who used their own wits to fight back against Slavery. Most of his stories however are meant to be moral lessons in which children needed to understand the lessons of learning a mistake. He also shares with many similar parallels to the Native American folk spirit (Nanabozho) who's also a Rabbit.

Brer Rabbit (c) Robert Roosevelt and Joel Chandler Harris

#inktober #inktober 2023 #inktober challenge #brer rabbit #african folklore #uncle remus

[lightningmonarchda3]

you cannot tell me that remus and pandora did not become best friends after the war. you simply cannot.

they both lost all of their friends in that dammed war.

james, lily, Peter, and Marlene were dead. sirius was in azkaban.

Evan, dorcas, and regulus were dead. Barty in azkaban.

they both were in the same position.

you cannot tell me that a year after the first wizarding war, remus gets suprised to see pandora rosier- lovegood now- at his door with baby luna on her left hip, smiling up at him.

you cannot tell me that they did not meet up constantly, that luna didn't know remus before he became her professor in her second year. no, because he wasn't "professor lupin", he was "uncle remus"

it was uncle remus who took care of him when panda and xeno were on date nights, the same uncle remus that loves to play hide and seek with a 3yo luna

it was uncle remus that thought her how to ride a bike, how to read any enjoy the company of books, how to make the best tea and hot cocoa ever.

it was uncle remus who tended to her when she got chicken pox at 7 and pandora and xeno were freaking out because, "we've heard of dragon pox, but not chicken pox!"

it was uncle remus who answered all of her questions about werewolves at the age of 8.

it was uncle remus who helped her when luna lost her mom at 9. (pandora's death devasted remus. they had gotten closer during the years due to the weekly meetings and how much more common they got as luna got older. but he had to stay strong for luna the same way he had to stay strong for harry after they lost sirius)

it was uncle remus who thought her basic magic at 10 to prepare her for hogwarts

it was uncle remus who would squeeze her to death at 11 before sending her of to hogwarts

it was uncle moony who gave her The Talk™ at 14.

#remus lupin #pandora lovegood #pandora rosier #luna lovegood #uncle remus #remus lupin being luna lovegoods uncle #dealing with grief and post war stuff #remus and pandora friendship #professor lupin

[qupritsuvwix]

#uncle remus #frank zappa #ikettes #tina turner #george duke #Youtube

[jt1674]

#george duke #uncle remus #the aura will prevail

[biboocat]

These are folkloric stories of the antebellum South collected by the author and published in 1881. They are told by the titular fictional character, an elderly black man, who entertains a young boy with these didactic animal tales. Interestingly the author tries to capture the vernacular of plantation Blacks by writing Uncle Remus’s voice in the style and slang of plantation blacks that he witnessed. It isn’t easy to read at first, but eventually you are able to decipher most of the words and get the gist of the tales. I read that the work generated some accusations of racial stereotyping and feeling nostalgic for the antebellum period, but I didn’t get a sense of that so far. I am grateful that the author took pains to preserve part of the Southern storytelling tradition and language history.

#joel chandler harris #uncle remus

[disneybooklist]

Content Warning

Uncle Remus Stories by Joel Chandler Harris (1927)

Song Of The South (1946)

#The book I read had an amazing intro that explained all the controversy #I got it from the library and don't exactly remember which version it is #Disney #Uncle Remus #Song of the South #1947 #1927 #Joel Chandler Harris

[ljones41]

After thinking about what is happening to the Splash Mountain attraction at the Disney Parks, I've come to the conclusion that our society is still incredibly ignorant about African American culture.

#splash mountain #Disneyland #Magic Kingdom #anti Disney Parks #Uncle Remus #Brier Rabbit #African American culture #African American folklore

[pamwmsn]

contentinacottage.blogspot.com

“I have always loved this rabbit pattern in navy blue designed by William Morris in 1882.  I have seen the wallpaper but never the fabric. The pattern was a tribute to the Uncle Remus books, first published in 1881, and a favourite of the Morris family.”

#rabbit #wallpaper #william morris #uncle remus