School Ma'am Play
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Title
School Ma'am Play
Subject
State Normal School for Women at Harrisonburg, periodical, yearbook, blackface, stereotypes, racism
Description
An image from the 1917 issue of the School Ma’am yearbook demonstrates racial insensitivity on campus. With the caption, “A Dark Night at the Normal,” white students have donned ‘blackface.’ Blackface has been critiqued for contributing to the proliferation of African American stereotypes.
Creator
State Normal School for Women at Harrisonburg
Source
JMU Yearbook Collection
Publisher
James Madison University Libraries and Educational Technologies
Date
1917
Rights
For information on publishing or citation of an item in a non-educational, fair use context, please contact Special Collections.
Format
96 dpi jpg
Type
Still Image
Files
Citation
State Normal School for Women at Harrisonburg, “School Ma'am Play,” JMU Special Collections, accessed April 20, 2024, https://omeka.lib.jmu.edu/specialcollections/items/show/115.
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