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Clinging to Mammy

The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America

Clinging to Mammy( )
Author: McElya, Micki
ISBN:978-0-674-02433-5
Publication Date:Oct 2007
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $74.95
Book Description:

Assertions of black contentment with servitude alleviated white fears while reinforcing racial hierarchy. McElya exposes the power and reach of this myth in advertising, films, and literature about the South, and in national monument proposals, child custody cases, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement.



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