By Micki McElya

Loving, hating, pitying, or pining for mammy grew to become a fashion for americans to make experience of moving financial, social, and racial realities. Assertions of black contentment with servitude alleviated white fears whereas reinforcing racial hierarchy. McElya's tales divulge the facility and succeed in of this delusion, not just in advertisements, motion pictures, and literature concerning the South, but additionally in nationwide monument proposals, baby custody instances, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement.

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