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If you see something objectionable, please let us know. Once a comment has been flagged, a staff member will investigate. Document type :. People have occasionally used porch monkey to refer to anyone kicking back outside. While this may not be intended to be offensive, porch monkey carries with it a strongly racist subtext and one should avoid use of it. Lawn jockey and patio primate are variant forms also to be avoided. A few classmates from the reunion porchmonkeys oldasdirt.
This is not meant to be a formal definition of porch monkey like most terms we define on Dictionary. Feedback See Today's Synonym. Word of the Day. Meanings Meanings. Take midth century America in circles in which polygenesis separate origins for the races was taken seriously. Leading scientists of the day Josiah C.
Nott and George R. Gliddon, in their Types of Mankind , documented what they saw as objective racial hierarchies with illustrations comparing blacks to chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. As Stephen Jay Gould comments, the book was not a fringe document, but the leading American text on racial differences.
Social Darwinism, triumphantly monogenetic, would become the new racial orthodoxy. Global white domination was being taken as proof of the evolutionary superiority of the white race. Popular culture played a crucial role in disseminating these beliefs. The average American layperson would be unlikely to have been reading scientific journals.
But they were certainly reading H. Africa and Africans occupied a special place in the white imaginary, marked by the most shameless misrepresentations. Burroughs would become one of the bestselling authors of the 20th century. Not just in his numerous books, but in the movies made of them and the various cartoon strip and comic spin-offs, of his most famous creation, Tarzan of the Apes. Tarzan would embed in the Western mind the indelible image of a white man ruling a black continent.
It is a world in which the black humans are bestial, simian, while the actual apes are near-human. Rather, it consolidated a Manichean iconography pervasive throughout the colonial Western world in the first half of the 20th century and lingering still today.
In this conflict between light and dark, white European persons rule simian black under-persons. In his Independence Day speech, Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba blasted the oppressive legacy of Belgian colonialism to the astonishment and outrage of the Belgian king and his coterie, who had expected grateful deference from the natives. Have a great Labor Day!
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