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Strange Fruit #249: How Watermelons Became A Racist Trope
Podcast |
Strange Fruit
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Jun 29, 2018
Episode Duration |
00:31:15

They're a delicious summertime snack -- but they're also associated with a long-standing stereotype about black people. This week we talk to historian Bill Black from Rice University about how watermelons became a racist symbol.

And an exhibit at the Carnegie Center for Art and History tells the fascinating story of Lucy Higgs Nichols. She went from enslavement in Tennessee to working as a nurse with the 23rd Indiana Volunteers during the Civil War. Al Gorman with the Carnegie joins us to talk about Nichols' life and local ties, and what you can see in the exhibit.

Historian Bill Black explains how watermelons became a racist trope. Plus a Carnegie Center exhibit tells the life story of Lucy Higgs Nichols, a formerly-enslaved woman who became a Civil War nurse.

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