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Mammy : a century of race, gender, and Southern memory

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-175) and index.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.
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Keywords

  1. African American Women In Literature
  2. African American Women In Popular Culture
  3. African Americans
  4. American Literature
  5. History
  6. History And Criticism
  7. In Literature
  8. Jemima. Aunt
  9. Racism In Popular Culture
  10. Southern States
  11. Stereotypes (Social Psychology) In Literature
  12. United States
  13. Women
  14. Women Household Employees

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