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Category Archives: Stagger Lee
– How Stagger Lee helped to survive the Jim Crow system
Each culture has its myths and folk heroes. They are an expression of the social and economic systems and their evolution in which they are given shape. In Western Europe for instance we are familiar with the good bandit Robin Hood who stole from the poor to give it to the rich. A similar figure […]
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