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Brasch, Walter M. Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the "Cornfield Journalist": The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris. Macon, Ga: Mercer University Press, 2000.

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This most recent biography of Harris covers his personal and professional life, as well as the political environment from which Harris and his writings emerged. Brasch also discusses the decline of Harris’s reputation as a folklorist and writer in the twentieth century.

Cochran, Robert.

“Black Father: The Subversive Achievement of Joel Chandler Harris.” African American Review, 38.1. (2004): 21-34.

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Cochran’s article discusses Harris’s unpopularity in the twentieth century. Cochran argues that the separation of the storyteller Uncle Remus from the story hero Brer Rabbit eventually lead to a re-characterization of Uncle Remus as an Uncle Tom-type, and Harris as a paternalist and defender of slavery.

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