- 1. Why Getting Rid Of The Aunt Jemima Brand Isn't Enoug
- (Eat Me)
- ... prepare meals for you. Everything to do with the Aunt Jemima image has to do with Jim-crow stereotypes of Black women, specifically the Southern “mammy,” who happily served food and cared for white families. ...
- Created on 22 June 2020
- 2. On Being Fat In Ways White Girls Don’t Understand
- (Feminism)
- ... they ought to. No matter what I try, I’ll never be white. There’s freedom in never. And yet, the shadow I cast as a fat black woman is tinged with a Mammy-rooted foulness. That is, part of my shame is ...
- Created on 08 February 2018
- 3. How Sex Workers Built America
- (Living)
- ... emergency hospital. And former slave turned influential brothel owner Mary Ellen “Mammy” Pleasant campaigned tirelessly for the desegregation of streetcars in San Francisco. Mary Ellen Pleasant These ...
- Created on 17 November 2017
- 4. 8 Things White Feminists Should Read For Black History Month
- (Books)
- ... down the historical roots and contemporary realities of the jezebel and mammy myths. Harris Perry’s analysis of the sapphire (the angry Black woman) myth is also critical to understanding the modern ways ...
- Created on 24 February 2016
- 5. Badass of the Day: Kara Walker
- (Arts)
- ... on multiple levels; it lampoons the antebellum “Mammy” motif, just as its size and situation demonstrate a reclamation of power. Walker explained her choice of materials in a recent New York Times profile, ...
- Created on 01 May 2014
