Clinging to Mammy : : The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America / / Micki McElya.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: McElya, Micki,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674040793; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674040793
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Micki McElya.

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 contentment with servitude alleviated white fears while reinforcing racial hierarchy. McElya's stories expose the power and reach of this myth, not only in advertising, films, and literature about the South, but also in national monument proposals, child custody cases, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement.