Mammies No More The Changing Image of Black Women on Stage and Screen

Name: Mammies No More The Changing Image of Black Women on Stage and Screen
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ISBN: 9780847684199

ISBN-10: 0847684199

ISBN-13: 9780847684199

Edition: 1997

Authors: Lisa M. Anderson

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This groundbreaking book explores the history of representations of African-American women in American film and theatre. Using a semiotic critical race theory framework, the author examines three stereotypes of African-American women.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/28/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Lisa M. Anderson is an associate professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University and the author of Mammies No More: The Changing Image of Black Women on Stage and Screen.




Introduction: Reflections of Our Lives



Mama on the Couch?



Yes Ma'am Miss Scarlett



Alternative Nurture



Margins and Myths



Mulattas, Tragedy, and Mtyh



Mulattas



Miscegenation Blues, or the Other Side of the Tragic Mulatta



What's Tragic about the Tragic Mulatta? Contemporary Mulattas and the Tragic Myth



The Myth of the Whore



Sex, Sexuality, and Black Women



Not for Us, Thank You



New Concepts of Sexuality



Sexual and Racial Domination



Representation and Resistance in an Antiblack World



Contemporary Trends, Contemporary Theatre