Clinging to Mammy The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America

Name: Clinging to Mammy The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America
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ISBN: 9780674024335

ISBN-10: 0674024338

ISBN-13: 9780674024335

Edition: 2007

Authors: Micki McElya

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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 grueling the labor, 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,…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/31/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144

Micki McElya is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Connecticut



List of Illustrations


Introduction: The Faithful Slave



The Life of "Aunt Jemima"



Anxious Performances



The Line between Mother and Mammy



Monumental Power



The Violence of Affection



Confronting the Mammy Problem


Epilogue: Recasting the Faithful Slave


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index