https://heartofthetable.artinterp.org/files/original/6b7eb471276aa76417fe16d4719b239e.png 71daaf4fc55addf363a7638ab2fafeda Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource “Around the Campus” Subject The topic of the resource UMD & Systemic Racism Description An account of the resource As is evident from the many pictures in this case from the Reveille, the Maryland Agricultural College’s yearbook, and, once the institution became the University of Maryland, the Terrapin Yearbook, White students on campus engaged broadly and frequently in racist tropes and language in their activities deemed worthy of preservation in their annual publication. At times this casual racism and focus extended to individual African Americans well-known to students on campus, individuals for whom a measure of affection is evident alongside and with tone, language, and imagery that is dehumanizing. One scholar [Stewart – can you remind me of this scholar?] characterizes such language used by Whites towards Black individuals as “puppy speak,” a tendency simultaneously to both show affection and assume a position of superiority towards the subject of address. Mr. Charles “Charlie” Dory was a most frequent target of students’ attention. The campus kitchen frequently was referred to as “Charlie Dory’s Health Resort,” innocuous enough, but in these pages from two of the Reveille yearbooks (1913 and 1916), Mr. Dory and two other Lakelanders are subjected to dehumanizing racialization. “Ode to Charley: A Drinking Song” is “dedicated to the Big Chief, by one of his tormentors.” While written in jest, the torment had to have been real for Mr. Dory and others from Lakeland and other Black communities who worked on campus. Mr. Dory’s cooking exploits are regaled, but others in the kitchen are named – Tom, Sid, and Chesley Mack – and “others, hid, but all as black As our well-known Minstrel Clown.” A minstrel clown is exactly how a student cartoonist depicted Mr. Dory in the 1916 pages of Reveille. Mr. Dory is depicted as a blackface minstrel (Coon) character in livery carrying a tray of food and drink and with napkin draped over his left arm. In the register below this one in the cartoon, a “Sam” in blackface and polka-dot shirt and check-pocketed breeches and cap is shown furiously sweeping a cloud of dust, with a can and dead rat among the detritus. This Sam is Samuel Stewart, who worked at the Maryland Agricultural College at this time and lived in Lakeland. His father, also Samuel Stewart, and mother, Georgianna Stewart, founded Embry AME Church in 1903. That their son would be represented in this racist manner is particularly galling, especially for Lakelanders who to this day honor and revere the Stewarts for their role in building the community. We intentionally present the 1916 cartoon from Reveille with the vignettes of “Charlie Dory” and “Sam” greyed out because the visual racist tropes are powerful and triggering. We also want to honor the desire of Mr. Dory’s descendants to “not see [their} granddaddy” portrayed this way. That said, it is important that we all are aware of the depths and depravity of the racism endemic at Maryland Agricultural College and later the University of Maryland in which the generations of Dory family members and other Lakelanders worked. To strike a balance, we provide here a QR code to the relevant page of the 1916 Reveille yearbook. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reveille, 1916, p.46 Courtesy of University of Maryland archives