Content warning: This article contains discussions of overt historical racism and racial stereotypes in popular culture. For many Americans, memories of summer are punctuated by the ever-familiar music of the ice cream truck rolling down their block, ready to dispense sugary treats in the heat.
While it may be a sweet moment in time, the song they were hearing has a surprising racist history. The tune that many (although not all) ice cream trucks play is likely most familiar from the childhood nursery rhyme “Do Your Ears Hang Low?,” but its history goes back much further.
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