| 词汇 | jim crow |
| 词源 | Jim Crow. Blackface minstrel Thomas D. Rice, “the father of American minstrelsy,” introduced the song “Jim Crow” in 1828, claiming to have patterned it on the song and dance of an old field hand named Jim Crow he had observed in Ken- tucky. Rice’s routine, part of a skit called “The Rifle,” became so familiar here and on tour in England that a few years later a British antislavery book was titled The History of Jim Crow. It is from this book and similar uses of Jim Crow to signify a black that the discriminatory laws and practices take their name, though the first Jim Crow laws weren’t enacted until 1875 in Tennessee. |
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