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Mammy : a century of race, gender, and Southern memory
- Title
- Mammy : a century of race, gender, and Southern memory / Kimberly Wallace-Sanders.
- Author
- Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly, 1962-
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 184 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
- Subject
- Jemima, Aunt
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Women household employees in literature
- African American women in literature
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
- African American women in popular culture > History > 20th century
- Racism in popular culture > United States > History > 20th century
- Southern States > In literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-175) and index.
- Contents
- The "mammification" of the nation : Mammy and the American imagination -- A love supreme : early characterizations of the mammy -- Bound in black and white : bloodlines, milk lines, and competition in the plantation nursery -- Dishing up Dixie : recycling the Old South -- Reconstructing Mammy at the turn of the century; or, Mark Twain meets Aunt Jemima -- Southern monuments, Southern memory, and the subversive mammy -- Blown away : Gone with the wind and The sound and the fury -- Mammy on my mind.
- Call Number
- Sc E 08-1517
- ISBN
- 9780472116140 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 0472116142 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2007052486
- OCLC
- 185123470
- Author
- Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly, 1962-
- Title
- Mammy : a century of race, gender, and Southern memory / Kimberly Wallace-Sanders.
- Imprint
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-175) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 08-1517