a century of race, gender, and southern memory
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 1A 2009 - B
- Thesaurus
- etniciteit, gender, vrouwbeelden, huishoudelijke arbeid, dienstmeisjes, identiteit, zwarte vrouwen, witte vrouwen, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Representations of Mammy have had a pervasive influence on the American literary and cultural imagination. This book traces the mammy figure at various historical moments linked to phases in America's racial consciousness. Its approach features color illustrations of varied depictions of the mammy figure from the nineteenth century to the present.