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Short Story "Uncle Remus on Coeds"
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Title
Short Story "Uncle Remus on Coeds"
Subject
Description
This short story written in the 1911 yearbook titled, "Uncle Remus on Coeds" and goes into detail about the elaborate parties that coeds throw, through the narrative of Uncle Remus. The story uses "negro" dialect and misspellings of words in order to portray the racist stereotype that black people are inferior and unable to speak in the "proper" manner.
Creator
Source
Virginia Baptist Historical Society, The Spider (1911): 220. Available online via UR Scholarship Repository.
Publisher
The Spider, University of Richmond
Date
1911
Language
English
Type
Identifier
Spider220-1911.pdf
Coverage
Richmond (Va).
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Citation
Ramsay, Eudora W., “Short Story "Uncle Remus on Coeds",” University of Richmond Race & Racism Project, accessed May 21, 2025, https://memory.richmond.edu/items/show/2986.