“The Emblem of North American Fraternity”: Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
Stephanie N. Bryan examines the cultural meanings behind opossum hunting and consumption in the US during Jim Crow apartheid—from freed people of African descent for whom these activities represented ecologically rooted foraging skills, economic independence, and household sufficiency; to whites in...
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Language: | English |
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Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
2022-10-01
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Series: | Southern Spaces |
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Online Access: | https://southernspaces.org/2022/emblem-north-american-fraternity-opossums-and-jim-crow-politics/ |