Clinging to Mammy : The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America / Micki McElya.
McElya, Micki, author.
2007
E185.86 M397 2007eb
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Title Clinging to Mammy : The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America / Micki McElya.
Author McElya, Micki, author.
ISBN 9780674040793
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674040793
Published Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2007]
Copyright ©2007
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (336 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674040793 doi
Call Number E185.86 M397 2007eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.3/620820973
Summary Loving, hating, pitying, or pining for mammy became a way for Americans to make sense of shifting economic, social, and racial realities. Assertions of black contentment with servitude alleviated white fears while reinforcing racial hierarchy. McElya's stories expose the power and reach of this myth, not only in advertising, films, and literature about the South, but also in national monument proposals, child custody cases, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement.
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In HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION: THE FAITHFUL SLAVE
1. THE LIFE OF "AUNT JEMIMA"
2. ANXIOUS PERFORMANCES
3. THE LINE BETWEEN MOTHER AND MAMMY
4. MONUMENTAL POWER
5. THE VIOLENCE OF AFFECTION
6. CONFRONTING THE MAMMY PROBLEM
EPILOGUE: RECASTING THE FAITHFUL SLAVE
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX

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