From Aunt Jemima advertisements to the board game Ghettopoly, American popular culture is replete with racist images. The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia features an extensive collection of racist objects that trace the history of the stereotyping of African Americans. The museum, located at Ferris State University, is offering "Hateful Things," a traveling exhibition of these images to further the museum's mission of stimulating the scholarly examination of historical and contemporary expressions of racism, as well as promoting racial understanding and healing.

"Hateful Things" will be exhibited at Schoolcraft College during January 2008.

The Jim Crow Museum is located at Ferris State University. Its mission “is to promote racial tolerance by helping people understand the historical and contemporary expressions of intolerance."

Some ways in which to incorporate information from the Jim Crow Museum into classes is by

• Show the documentary Jim Crow Museum. Narrated by Dr. David Pilgrim, the museum’s curator, this documentary features racist artifacts and puts them in a cultural perspective. Schoolcraft College owns the documentary so you can easily object a copy to show in your classes. You may get it from the library. An excerpt of this documentary was feated in the 2005 Diaglues Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.

• View and discuss racist cartoons.

• Read and react to some of Dr. David Pilgrim’s essays.
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