Clinging to Mammy

The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America

Szerző: Micki McElya

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Harvard University Press

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten

Küldés 14-21 napon belül

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When Aunt Jemima beamed at Americans from the pancake mix box on grocery shelves, many felt reassure...

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Szerző

Micki McElya

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2007

oldal

336

EAN

9780674024335

Enbook ID

04634971

Kiadó

Harvard University Press

Súly

508

Méretek

215 x 214 x 31

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When Aunt Jemima beamed at Americans from the pancake mix box on grocery shelves, many felt reassured by her broad smile that she and her product were dependable. She was everyone's mammy, the faithful slave who was content to cook and care for whites, no matter how gruelling the labour, because she loved them. This far-reaching image of the nurturing black mother exercises a tenacious hold on the American imagination.Micki McElya examines why we cling to mammy. She argues that the figure of the loyal slave has played a powerful role in modern American politics and culture. 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 people's contentment with servitude alleviated white fears while reinforcing racial hierarchy. African American resistance to this notion was varied but often placed new constraints on black women.McElya's stories of faithful slaves expose the power and reach of the myth, not only in popular advertising, films, and literature about the South, but also in national monument proposals, child custody cases, white women's minstrelsy, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement. The colour line and the vision of interracial motherly affection that helped maintain it have persisted into the 21st century. If we are to reckon with the continuing legacy of slavery in the United States, McElya argues, we must confront the depths of our desire for mammy and recognize its full racial implications.

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