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27 wrz 2011 · Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1-Jezebel and Mammy: The Mythology of Female Slavery -- Chapter 2-The Nature of Female Slavery -- Chapter 3-The Life Cycle of the Female Slave -- Chapter 4-The Female Slave Network -- Chapter 5-Men, Women, and Families -- Epilogue -- After Slavery: Old Patterns and New Myths -- Notes -- Selected ...
3 sie 2021 · The mammy as a cultural image emerged during slavery, and advocates of the Old South utilized it to argue against the verity that slavery was 5“a harsh, cruel, and brutal system.” Popular culture strove to erase the horrific reality of slavery, notably through the Aunt Jemima
Collins notes the Mammy was "created to justify the economic exploitation of the house slaves and sustained to explain Black women's long-standing restriction to domestic service; the mammy image represents the normative yardstick used to evaluate all Black women's behavior."12 More importantly, the Mammy exemplified the ways in which
1 kwi 2009 · As McElya correctly notes, the image of the black mammy—the faithful and loving female household slave—was always a fiction. Created during slavery, the mythical mammy figure was an important...
31 paź 2007 · 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...
In the final chapter, the author articulates the particular dilemmas that the “faithful slave narrative presented for black women as workers, activists, mothers, and citizens in the twentieth century--the Mammy problem” (p. 209).
31 paź 2007 · 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...
