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Micki McElya examines why we cling to mammy.

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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, 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 color line and the vision of interracial motherly affection that helped maintain it have persisted into the twenty-first 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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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674024338
ISBN-13
9780674024335
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59089697

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Author
Micki Mcelya
Publication Name
Clinging to Mammy : the Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
336 Pages

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8.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz

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E185.86.M397 2007
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If you want to understand the ways that white women exploited black women's domestic labor and how Hollywood and Madison Avenue went on to make billions marketing that exploitation, this is the text to read. McElya's book clarifies why we should not expect simple or enduring political alliances based on gender unless and until we have some very serious, difficult, and sustained conversations around class and race., McElya shows vividly how "mammy" serves as a perfect archetype for analyzing cultural politics of race and gender, and how they changed. She gives us parlor theatrics, courtroom drama, legislative debate, and movement politics. This is a wonderfully expansive book., Details the tenacious hold of the "mammy" myth of contented colored folk on white public imagination., Americans loved Aunt Jemima and their mammies. There is no more powerful and damaging popular symbol in American culture than the faithful slave in all its manifestations. McElya's sensitive, surprising, and enlightening book will make readers wonder at how desperate white America was to believe that slaves were loyal and content. This book is painfully marvelous scholarship that should reach a broad readership., Details the tenacious hold of the 'eoemammy'e myth of contented colored folk on white public imagination., McElya's powerful blend of cultural and political history illuminates the ways twentieth-century white Southerners tried to maintain their historic privilege while denying the violence of their past. Following the trajectory from Aunt Jemima to Ronald Reagan's "welfare queen," Clinging to Mammy traces white Americans' efforts to define, coerce and reap the benefits of African American women's labor while maintaining a firm grip on political power., Few American icons have been as comforting or as destructive as the black mammy. If lynching was the brutal face of white supremacy, Aunt Jemima and her ilk were the face of the white fantasy of harmonious race relations. With exceptional scholarly craft, McElya reveals the distortions, hardships, and tragedy that the smiling face and jovial demeanor of the mythic black mammy were intended to obscure. This book signals the arrival of a talented new historian.
Table of Content
List of 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
Copyright Date
2007
Topic
Slavery, United States / 20th Century, Discrimination & Race Relations, Popular Culture, United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Lccn
2007-001231
Dewey Decimal
306.3/620820973
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science

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