Mammy is the most well known and enduring racial caricature of African American women. The Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University has more than 100 items with the mammy image, …

The mammy caricature was used to create a narrative of Black women being content within the institution of slavery among domestic servitude. The mammy stereotype associates Black …

The mammy caricature romanticized the realities of the enslaved and servant life and obscured the unequal foundation of the master-servant power structure. Portrayed as an obese, coarse, …

Mammy is the most well known and enduring racial caricature of African American women. The Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University has more than 100 items with the mammy image, …

The mammy caricature created a narrative of Black women being content within the institution of slavery and domestic servitude. The mammy stereotype associates Black women with …

One of the most pervasive stereotypes constructed during the post-Civil War era, and arguably the most enduring image from the days of Jim Crow, the mammy was a staple caricature in …

Jan 23, 2020 · One hundred and fifty years ago, one of the most pervasive stereotypes of African Americans constructed in the wake of the Civil War, and arguably the most enduring image …

May 30, 2023 · Throughout her historical permutations, mammy as cultural figure and object has always functioned to depict black female domestic laborers as racial inferior, and characteristic …

Sep 25, 2019 · One of the most pervasive stereotypes constructed during the post-Civil War era, and arguably the most enduring image from the days of Jim Crow, the mammy was a staple …

Sep 25, 2019 · Tour Making Mammy: A Caricature of Black Womanhood, 1840–1940 with curators Taylor Bythewood-Porter, Assistant History Curator at CAAM, and Brenda Stevenson, …