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Clinging to Mammy : The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America / / Micki McElya.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674024335
  • 9780674040793
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.3/620820973
LOC classification:
  • E185.86 M397 2007eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
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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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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