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Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima (The American South Series) - Softcover

Manring, Maurice M

 
9780813918112: Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima (The American South Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0813918111 ISBN 13: 9780813918112
Verlag: University of Virginia Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

In "Slave in a Box," M. M. Manring investigates why the troubling figure of Aunt Jemima has endured in American culture. The author traces the evolution of the mammy from her roots in Old South slave reality and mythology, through reinterpretations during Reconstruction and in minstrel shows and turn-of-the-century advertisements, to Aunt Jemima's symbolic role in the Civil Rights movement and her present incarnation as a 'working grandmother.' The reader learns how advertising entrepreneur James Webb Young, aided by celebrated illustrator N. C. Wyeth, skillfully tapped into nostalgic 1920s perceptions of the South as a culture of white leisure and black labor. Aunt Jemima's ready-mixed products offered middle-class housewives the next best thing to a black servant: a 'slave in a box' that conjured up romantic images of not only the food but also the social hierarchy of the plantation South.

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M.M. Manring is an independent scholar living in Columbia, Missouri.

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Verlag
University of Virginia Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0813918111
ISBN 13 
9780813918112
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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