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

Author:: Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly, 1962-
Published:: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2008]
Copyright Date:: ©2008
Physical Description:: xvii, 184 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

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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.

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9780472116140 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0472116142 (cloth : acid-free paper)

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

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