Tales of Uncle Remus (Puffin Modern Classics): The Adventures of Brer Rabbit | 
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💙📚 🐇 3y
OriginalCyn620 👍🏻📚🐇 3y
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So, a couple of things. I know the Uncle Remus Tales are controversial, mostly due to Joel Chandler Harris (white journalist) who wrote down, and profited from, African American folk tales. Even the dialect JCH uses is problematic. Now! What Julius Lester does: he removes the “kindly ex-slave” character, and provides a more accurate African American vernacular. Now we can enjoy these fantastic trickster tales. But they‘re more than that. 👇🏻👇🏻