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`Uncle Tom's' explores enduring stereotypes
From: Bay State Banner
Date: 20021010
Author:Bourne, Kay
Bourne, Kay
Bay State Banner
10-10-2002
You've heard the slur. Calling a black person an Uncle Tom means he or she
is an untrustworthy toady allied with the plantation owner.
A sharply written, thought provoking play "Uncle Tom's Cabin; or The
Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" explores how that
disparaging term and other stereotypes like Topsy and Jim Crow derived from
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel came into the language.
The play with its imaginatively created snarling bloodhounds and rapid ice
floes opens Oct. 12 and runs through Nov. 2 at the Black Box Theater,
Boston ...
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