Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris, and the South, Part II

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How did Joel Chandler Harris's stories on Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Bear, and Br'er Fox go from beloved to problematic in the mid-twentieth century? In this episode, Elizabeth traces the story of how Joel Chandler Harris's work became Song of the South.  

Podcaster: Elizabeth

Further Reading

Matthew Bernstein, "Nostalgia, Ambivalence, Irony:" Song of the South" and Race Relations in 1946 Atlanta," Film History 8:2 (1996): 219-236.

Alain Locke, “Enter the New Negro,” Survey Graphic 6 (March 1925), 631–34. Available via National Humanities Center.

M. Thomas Inge, "Walt Disney’s Song of the South and the Politics of Animation," The Journal of American Culture 35:3 (2012): 219-230.

Jennifer Ritterhouse, “Reading, Intimacy, and the Role of Uncle Remus in White Southern Social Memory,” The Journal of Southern History 69:3 (2003): 585–622.

Jason Sperb,  Disney's Most Notorious Film. University of Texas Press, (2021).

Jason Sperb, "" Take a Frown, Turn It Upside Down": Splash Mountain, Walt Disney World, and the Cultural De-rac [e]-ination of Disney's Song of the South (1946)," Journal of Popular Culture 38:5 (2005): 924-938.

Daniel Stein, "From" Uncle Remus" to" Song of the South": Adapting American Plantation Fictions," The Southern Literary Journal (2015): 20-35.

​​Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)