Dear sunscreen appliers, The Lazy Scholar is happy to return to these webpages after a protracted journey through the land of end-of-semester labor—paper grading and dissertation prospecting, to be precise. There are still some seniors milling (and drinking) around campus, biding their time until commencement. But so far, I haven’t spotted any yearbooks—that tried and [...]
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The Yearbook in Review
Posted in books, cartoons, education, Jews on May 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Foxy Brown and Aunt Jemima, Exposed
Posted in advertising, cartoons, commercialism, food, visual culture, tagged aunt jemima, foxy brown on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
O pioneers of the digital frontier, Anyone who’s watched Spike Lee’s sometimes brilliant, sometimes obvious 2000 film Bamboozled, Ferris State University’s Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia might feel eerily familiar—the docile, self-sacrificing”mammy,” the lazy, stealing, and insatiable “coon” (on the left). Less familiar to some readers may be the sexually virile “Jezebel” stereotype, embodied, [...]
A Thanksgiving Feast (of Archives!)
Posted in books, cartoons, food, humor, visual culture on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear preemptive vacationers, I realize there’s been a lot of food in these dispatches lately, perhaps in subconscious anticipation of Thanksgiving this Thursday. I don’t know about you, but when I think about Thanksgiving (or Turkey Day, as I’ve heard it called), I think about sweet potatoes with marshmallows, fresh roasted turkey, grandmotherly love—and that’s [...]
Card Catalogs and the Environment, Conserved
Posted in books, cartoons, environment, libraries, visual culture, tagged card catalogs, University of Iowa on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear last-minutes-before-class loiterers, Like some of you, I’m just old enough to remember the days of ye olde card catalog—when finding a book required more than a quick Google search. No, the dedicated researcher pulled out drawer after wooden drawer—even stacked them in a dangerous Jenga-like tower—and then flipped endlessly to find the perfect book [...]
Eisenhower and Bush Sr., Now Kid-Friendlier!
Posted in advertising, cartoons, politics, video on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear reluctant researchers, As you ponder the results of yesterday’s elections, I thought you might appreciate a visit from the ghosts of political campaigns past. No, I haven’t summoned the spirit of Fiorello Laguardia again. But I have uncovered a fascinating archive from the Museum of the Moving Image: “The Living Room Candidate,” which includes [...]
Trick-or-Treaters and Headless Horsemen
Posted in books, cartoons, musicals, periodicals, photography, visual culture, tagged halloween on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear idling experts, I’ve lived in Massachusetts for three Halloweens now, counting tomorrow, but I’ve yet to trek to Salem for their ghoulish festivities. From what I hear, they’re a real hoot—if by hoot, you mean a gross misappropriation of the past. Why worry about Puritans persecuting each other when you can visit a psychic [...]
Cartoons and Commerce, Together at Last!
Posted in books, cartoons, economics, humor, visual culture, tagged books, caricatures, cartoons, cities, commerce, humor, Internet Archive, Library of Congress, mascot on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear siesta sympathizers, Those of you following the Lazy Scholar blog may be asking yourself, “Who is that handsome devil on the homepage?” No, dear readers, it’s not a portrait of yours truly, but rather the official Lazy Scholar mascot—known in his own time and place as Paul Nebeker Bogart. The mixed-media caricature comes from [...]
Civil War cartoons and the World’s Fair
Posted in cartoons, photography, tagged cartoons, Civil War, photography, University of Maryland, world's fair on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Partners in Leisurely Labor, For this entry, I want to highlight the digital collection at University of Maryland, a mid-size but nice to navigate site. One of their newest additions is a book of drawings from a Confederate soldier who was imprisoned in a Union camp in Point Lookout, Maryland for the last year [...]
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