Mammy : a century of race, gender, and Southern memory / Kimberly Wallace-Sanders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly, 1962-

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Women domestics in literature.

African American women in literature.

Racism in popular culture.

History.

African American women in popular culture.

Southern States--In literature.

Southern States.

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.

African American women in popular culture--History--20th century.

Racism in popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Jemima, Aunt.

Jemima.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 184 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2008.

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.

Notes:

Front cover: Bessie Morse holding Earl Sinclair McKey, Jr., 1908.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-175) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is paperback edition.

ISBN:

9780472116140

0472116142

9780472034017

OCLC:

185123470

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