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Br'er Rabbit and the Tar-Baby, drawing by E. W. Kemble from "The Tar-Baby", by Joel Chandler Harris, 1904. The Tar-Baby is the second of the Uncle Remus stories published in 1881; it is about a doll made of tar and turpentine used by the villainous Br'er Fox to entrap Br'er Rabbit. The more that Br'er Rabbit fights the Tar-Baby, the more ...
Name Character Stories in which the character plays a role Brer Rabbit: a trickster who succeeds by his speed and wits rather than by brawn: Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy/ The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story/ How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox/ Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceivrennetes Mr. Fox/ Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized/ Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit/ Mr. Terrapin Appears upon the ...
Tar Baby is also a name [...] that white people call black children, black girls, as I recall. At one time, a tar pit was a holy place, at least an important place, because tar was used to build things. It held together things like Moses' little boat and the pyramids. For me, the tar baby came to mean the black woman who can hold things together.
The movie was released in November 1946, and is a mixture of live-action and animation; 25 minutes of the film's 94-minute running time consists of three animated sequences: "Br'er Rabbit Runs Away" (~8 min), "Br'er Rabbit and the Tar Baby" (~12 min) and "Br'er Rabbit's Laughing Place" (~5 min).
Tar Baby, a 1981 novel by Toni Morrison; Tar Baby (comics), a Marvel Comics character "Tar Baby", a song on the 1985 album Promise by English band Sade; Tar Baby Option, the United States State Department name for President Richard Nixon's policy during the late 1960s and early 1970s of strengthening contacts with the white-minority governments ...
"Tar Baby" was the name given by the United States State Department to Richard Nixon's policy during the late 1960s and 1970s of strengthening contacts with the white-minority governments in Rhodesia and apartheid-era South Africa. The allusion was to the Uncle Remus story in which Brer Fox tries to capture Brer Rabbit by making a tar baby ...
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"Lollipop and the Tar Baby", originally published in Orbit 19, 1977 "Picnic on Nearside", originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , August 1974 All of the stories but "Manikins" take place in Varley's Eight Worlds future history.