Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima by Maurice M. Manring

Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima

American South

Maurice M. Manring

224 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction business race
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The figure of the mammy occupies a central place in the lore of the Old South and has long been used to ullustrate distinct social phenomena, including racial oppression and class identity. In the early twentieth century, the mammy became immortal...

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