Exploring white American popular culture of the past century and a half, Turner (rhetoric, folklore, African American studies, U. of California at Davis) details subtle and not-so-subtle negative tropes and images of black people, from Uncle Tom and Aunt Jemima to jokes about Michael Jackson and Jesse Jackson. She feels that far too little has changed in terms of white stereotyping and its negative effects. Much of the material was previously published in slightly altered forms in such journals as the International Folklore Review and the Trotter Institute Review; and the book itself was originally published by Anchor Books (NY) in 1994. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR