[Callers] Re: Looking for Jump Jim Joe Alternative

Huh. I thought "Jump Jim Joe" *was* the less-racist alternative to "Jump Jim Crow" (a dialect song and dance from 1828 which pretty much kicked off the whole enterprise of blackface minstrelsy). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_Jim_Crow However, here's somebody in 2012 dropping "Jump Jim Joe" from the classroom because it's a direct descendant of "Jump Jim Joe", so some people apparently feel that scrubbing the burnt cork off is insufficient: https://www.josieholford.com/beneath-the-surface-the-hokey-pokey-and-jump-j…. By their logic whatever you found as an alternative use of the same tune would still be tainted. -- Alan ________________________________________ From: Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers <contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2024 11:14 AM To: Shared Weight Contra Callers Subject: [Callers] Looking for Jump Jim Joe Alternative I understand that the childrens' singing game/dance I knew as Jump Jim Joe isn't used as such anymore due to its racist origins. I'm wondering whether another text and dance has been set to that tune. It was such a short and easy song, very accessible to early primary grades. Thanks! Jerome