BROADLY: When you're using the term, Mammy 2.0 in the book [Chapter 10 is titled Mammy 2.0 Black Women Will Not Save You, So Stop Asking], who are you referring to?
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It's basically a cookie jar replica of a mammy caricature.
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I am not a token, mammy, or little brown bobble head.
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But African-American clubwomen and reformers did not accept the "mammy" stereotype.
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But African-American clubwomen and reformers did not accept the "mammy" stereotype.
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The mammy stereotype portrays black women as obedient maids to white families.
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It's when he blacks his face up and performs "Mammy" as a Negro.
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I'm still not sure what to do with mygrandmother's mammy salt and pepper shakers.
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"It feels great, like you're helping people, as if you're their mammy," Whitney grins.
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There are also two early shorts, "Mammy Water" (1955) and "The Mad Masters" (1956).
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A greasy, smelly overweight mammy with fake hair purchased me with your tax dollars.
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" In 1956, she originated the role of Mammy Yokum in the popular musical "Lil' Abner.
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I focus on three Southern archetypes: the old mountain woman, the mammy, and the Southern belle.
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Hattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in "Gone with the Wind."
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She adopted the nom de net Museum Mammy, and a handful of followers grew into thousands.
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And Mammy, Scarlett's spirited, long-suffering slave maid (played by McDaniel) whom I both revered and feared.
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Cheryl becomes preoccupied with an actress playing a "beautiful black mammy" billed only as the Watermelon Woman.
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For artist Elise Peterson, that means "Mammy Wata," a collage she says she developed to liberate the "mammy" stereotype so she has agency over her body, morphing her with Mami Wata, a mermaid-like female spirit representing sexuality, fidelity, and healing that's venerated across Africa and its diaspora.
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A racist device, the mammy has no role other than to tend to white families and their needs.
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Newtown retweeted one user who wrote: "Did you have to get your morning madeline out of a mammy jar?"
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The goal of the work is to transform the stereotypical depiction of a mammy into one of black power.
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Peachum in the celebrated 1954 revival of "The Threepenny Opera" and as Mammy Yokum in "Li'l Abner" in 1956.
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Hattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in 1939's Best Picture, Gone with the Wind.
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It's hardly a new phenomenon; fashion has long had a fascination with racist imagery, from Blackamoor to Mammy to Sambo.
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Mammy is the epitome of Hollywood's old, morally purblind plantation mythology; Steve McQueen's film strove to capture slavery's incessant terrors.
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I was doing full-on, giant mammy faces like Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, from books, films, and other collected artifacts.
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" Translation- "I gave my Mammy a cake, she turned into a big bear, my auld yin tried to do her in.
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The late great star won an award in 1939 for her portrayal of the housemaid, Mammy, in Gone With The Wind.
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Watch for their hilarious second-act "Muqin," in which the brothers sing "My Mammy" in Chinese while supertitles do the translating.
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When her toddler called her "Mammy" instead of "Mommy," Sykes had the look of someone who had seen the sunken place.
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When it comes to spending his downtime, days on the beach with Jr. and his "Mammy" are definitely in the cards.
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This exhibition examines the mammy figure's appearance throughout US history and its construction and reinforcement through literature, cinema, and other media.
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It won 10 Oscars, including one for Hattie McDaniel as best supporting actress for her portrayal of a slave named Mammy.
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The material nature of sugar was transfigured into the skin of an oversized mammy, an uncomfortable image producing revelatory, contradictory effects.
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"There weren't many multidimensional roles for [Black women] beyond 'The Mammy' or 'The Exotic Other,'" says Yvonne D. Sims, the author of Women of Blaxploitation: How The Black Heroine Changed American Popular Culture, pointing to Hattie McDaniel's loyal 'mammy' in Gone With the Wind and Dorothy Dandridge's recurrent exoticized roles in movies like Sundown and Tarzan's Peril.
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It struck me that, in yet another year of #OscarsSoWhite, McDaniel's performance as Mammy, and her Oscar win, seem particularly worth remembering.
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His partner asks him to grab a condom from her bedside table, and he finds one stashed in a mammy cookie jar.
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And while we ricochet from God to Mammy and back again, we never quite land at fully fleshed human being with needs.
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Barely has the movie begun before a cartoon Whiteman travels to Africa, charms a lion into shouting "Mammy" and is consequently crowned king.
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While jezebels were rooted in hypersexual stereotypes about black women, the "mammy" stereotype framed black women as heavyset, asexual caretakers of white families.
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"It's like they abolished slavery but they kept Black people in the kitchen as mammy jars," Saar told the LA Times in 2016.
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Like blackface, racist objects such as mammy jars perpetuate deep-rooted stereotypes about African-Americans by portraying them as docile, dumb and animated.
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As a TV personality, she carefully toes the line of popularized Black stereotypes like the mammy, the mythical negro, and the strong Black woman.
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McDaniel's character in Gone with the Wind, Mammy, is now a descriptor for one of the more harmful representations of Black women in Hollywood.
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When Dev goes to get a condom, he realizes they're the world's most racist cookie jar, which is designed like an offensive mammy trope.
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The main image here is a store-bought relief of a Jim Crow-era plastic mammy meant to hold a kitchen notepad and pencil.
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Another character references the diety Mammy Water, which is quite prevalent in Caribbean cultures and in some areas in Central Africa that practice voodoo.
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Barnum exhibited Heth as George Washington's 161-year-old "mammy," using her black body to catapult him from dry goods salesman to global entertainment icon.
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Actress Hattie McDaniel, the first black woman to receive an Academy Award, won the Oscar for her role as "Mammy" in Gone With the Wind.
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She received the Best Supporting Actress award for her role as Mammy, the head slave at the fictional plantation in "Gone with the Wind" (1939).
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McDaniel won the Best Supporting Actress award for "Gone with the Wind," in which she played Mammy, a role that's since been mired in controversy.
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He dedicated the book to Hattie McDaniel, the actress who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Mammy in the film version of the original novel.
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Anyway, his world view gets majorly messed with when a black family, in blackface, and with names like Sambo, Mammy, and Topsy, move in next door.
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She equips these figures with weaponry as a means of self-defense and rebellion against the political parameters shackling the mammy to servitude under white supremacy.
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In the seminal work, a figurine of a mammy stands on a cloud of cotton holding a broom in one hand and a shotgun in the other.
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Her 1972 breakthrough piece, "The Liberation of Aunt Jemima," merges the two by transforming the racist stereotype of the smiling black mammy into an armed freedom fighter.
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Sure, it was awkward to see Kaneisha twerk to a Rihanna song in Mammy-ish garb for her white husband, who was dressed as a plantation overseer.
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In tandem with its Making Mammy exhibition, the California African American Museum is hosting a conversation around the value of important, but difficult pieces of American history.
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Grace Coddington, a former creative director of American Vogue, was photographed with a collection of so-called mammy ceramics in her kitchen for a French lifestyle magazine.
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Mammy miniatures — jars, salt and pepper shakers, kitchen bells — show a black woman with exaggerated lips in a red-and-white gown and a matching head scarf.
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The mammy caricatures and slave ship imprints are painful reminders that this nation's history of trading Black lives for economic gain extends long after the abolition of slavery.
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In 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first Black woman to win an Oscar in any acting category, for her supporting role as Mammy in Gone With The Wind.
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The easy trope for Violet to play into would be that of the desexualized mammy — an older Black woman who isn't eligible for love, romantic pleasure, or companionship.
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There's Rose (Dana Gourrier), a mammy stereotype who is defined by her endless well of empathy, and her externalized, sexless, maternal behavior toward Kara and Alice (Audrey Boustani).
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In a Black History Month roiled by tone-deaf scandals in politics and fashion involving blackface, shoes and balaclavas, you may have missed the one about mammy jars.
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Hattie McDaniel, the first Black woman to ever win an Oscar, won Best Supporting Actress in 1939 for her portrayal of Mammy, a maid, in Gone with the Wind.
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McDaniel beat costar Olivia de Havilland to win Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Scarlett O'Hara's maid Mammy in the 1939 Civil War epic Gone with the Wind.
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Grandly towering over the room, Dominique Duroseau's "Mammy was here: she equally acceptable" (2019) calls attention to racial inequities in reproduction and childcare, rooted in the history of enslavement.
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"What an interesting culture we have, where you have price guides not just for mammy ceramics and salt and pepper shakers, but also for lynching postcards," Dr. Pilgrim said.
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For them it evoked the "mammy" trope; the black woman as a one-dimensional figure who is delighted to tidy white people's messes and come to their aid after calamity.
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She invigorates the stereotypical, historically racist figure of the mammy, a trope connoted with servility and domesticity and operating as a stand-in mother for children of white slave owners.
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I've taken these figurines, mammy saltshakers, and 'African' tribal dancers, and put their heads atop of white female figurines that have been afforded the luxury of beautiful ball gowns and dignity.
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It was a stuffed black doll dressed in a red and white gown and an apron -- also known as a Mammy doll, a caricature that perpetuates offensive stereotypes about African Americans.
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Particularly in the US, racist depictions of fictional characters have often become stand-ins for the negative stereotypes they represent — the "Uncle Tom," the "Mammy," the "Stepin Fetchit," and so on.
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She utilizes mementos from Jim Crow in works like "Let Me Entertain You" (1972), to return autonomy to mammy and minstrel figures and re-envision them with a pro-Black message.
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I think about history all the time — my own personal history and the contentiousness with which we tend to view images of black woman-ness throughout time. Jezebel. Mammy. Slut. Superwoman.
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"I am ashamed and embarrassed that I didn't see the mammy jars in the photo until an Instagram commenter pointed them out to me," the photographer, Brian Ferry, said in a statement.
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In his Pop-like 1964 painting "The New Jemima," he placed the familiar "mammy" figure seen on boxes of pancake mix against planes of bright color and armed her with a machine gun.
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In "Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima" (1983), Ringgold recasts Aunt Jemima — the smiling face of a still-existing pancake and waffle mix brand based on the racist "mammy" stereotype — as a savvy businesswoman.
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While meeting at the home of the president of the association, I noticed that she had a row of African-American iconography lined up in her kitchen: a collection of ceramic "Mammy" jars.
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By diving into the Watermelon Woman's backstory, Cheryl gives this one-dimensional mammy character a real persona and makes her someone with a whole life outside of the few degrading parts she was offered.
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"Preceding this instance, he allegedly referred to the Working People Caucus as the 'Poor Black People Working Caucus' and called a constituent the 'mayor's mammy,'" Daniels wrote in statement to Politico on Monday night.
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The bare-breasted sphinx with the head of a black mammy figure—made from resin and sugar to evoke the industry that drove the slave trade—was meant to challenge the art world establishment.
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Yet Alan Crosland's picture is now mostly remembered, and discredited, for a scene in which Jolson performs his signature song, "My Mammy," in blackface — a form of entertainment that has long stopped being acceptable.
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THE road from Hattie McDaniel's turn as Mammy in "Gone with The Wind", which earned her an Oscar in 1940, to "12 Years a Slave", which won Best Picture in 2014, was long and steep.
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"In 'People in Glass Houses Shouldn't Throw Stones,' from the I Am Not Your Mammy series, I've tried to give racist representations of black women a new purpose, elevating them through new contexts," explains Gaignard.
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In 2015, the poet and conceptual artist Vanessa Place drew intense criticism for an online performance art project that involved retweeting "Gone With the Wind" line by line, alongside a photograph of the character Mammy.
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And Grace Coddington, the former creative director of Vogue in the United States, recently drew ire after she was photographed posing with a collection of ceramic "mammy" jars — a racist caricature of a black woman.
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She ignores the acres of writing exploring the stubborn, resistant, and self-empowered Black cook—some of them as gay and sassy as me, some dignified and fatherly, some maternal and very un-"Mammy" like.
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" In that song, while rapping about the established music world's penchant for dismissing his genre, he says, "They ain't even recognize Hov until Annie /That's why I don't tap dance for them crackers and sing mammy.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads It's the 1990s when a young, ambitious filmmaker goes on the hunt for "the Watermelon Woman," a black actress who played mostly mammy roles in 1930s and '40s Hollywood films.
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In the early days of cinema, they rarely appeared except as stock characters like the servant or help (think Hattie McDaniel's "Mammy" from Gone with the Wind or, more recently, Viola Davis' character in The Help).
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She is best known for her assemblages involving Aunt Jemima, a mammy figure still in popular circulation in the 21st century through the maple syrup brand of the same name, whose racist roots are often overlooked.
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Beneath her bosom, Saar has nestled an image of a similarly jubilant mammy figure, cradling a pale child in her arms, overlaid by a sculpted, starkly dark, Black power fist, with one nail manicured blood red.
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Some people collect the objects as investment pieces: At antique shows a few decades ago, the banks were priced from $400 to $600, and mammy jars were sold for $200 to $400, according to Dr. Pilgrim.
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" According to Politico, Parker has also been accused of making other racially-charged comments, including allegedly calling their local Working People Caucus the "Poor Black People Working Caucus," and referring to a woman as the "mayor's mammy.
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Black Americans have struggled to free themselves of these limited expectations, to transcend being seen simply as the brutish thug on the corner, the sassy and strong black woman, the cheerfully selfless mammy, or the mindless entertainer.
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The paw is all that remains of the 75-foot-long, 35-foot-high mammy-headed sugar sphinx that presided over the decommissioned Domino refinery in Brooklyn for a few heavily Instagrammed months in the summer of 2014.
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The arguments against Walker's art have been led by Betye Saar, the criminally underrated assemblage artist whose socially conscious work appropriates and subverts racist tropes like the mammy or the pickaninny in an attempt to empower black people.
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On Tuesday night, on Instagram (because she's been banned from Twitter), the once-relevant artist went on a tirade about Lizzo's penchant for wearing outfits "showing her cellulite," calling Lizzo a "millennial mammy" who caters to white Americans.
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" Actually, it's not Caroline who's speaking at that moment, but Ms. Kidwell, whom we have just seen as an apparition out of a white man's fantasy: an erotic, all-succoring Mammy, singing "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.
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The conception of black womanhood that scholars frequently cite — mammy, jezebel or sapphire — is antithetical to the idea of a princess, a cosseted women whose prince comes to sweep her off her feet and solve all of her troubles.
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It opens with her mumbling something like "We just wanna be pretty / pretty that's the goal / we just wanna smile / get a mammy home" as a black woman nursing a baby in a chair gets dragged offscreen by two men.
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Walker's first public installation since the 28 Marvelous Sugar Baby — the enormous Sphinx-like mammy figure that she built out of sugar in the now-demolished Domino factory in Williamsburg — the Karavan went up for the closing weekend of the Prospect.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The stereotype of the "mammy" — a kindly, overweight, African American servant woman — has been an archetype of institutional racism and misogyny in the US, giving a soft, revisionist veneer to the atrocities of antebellum slavery.
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The exhibition Making Mammy: A Caricature of Black Womanhood, 1840–1940 at the California African American Museum (CAAM) looks at this phenomenon through films, photographs, and articles of material culture, showing just how widespread and insidious this manufactured caricature became.
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"The response was zero to 1000 because black women are expected to behave in ways that are submissive and mammy-like, and when you ask one question that's perceived to deviate from that, this is the punishment that you get."
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One of my favorite scenes in all movies is the first moment we see Hattie McDaniel as Mammy in Gone with the Wind: she's leaning out a second-floor window at Tara and yelling at Scarlett—a whole scolding litany at top volume.
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The name is obviously meant to be punny, with a joke I have never understood, but the character himself was clearly created as a minstrel caricature with his servility and loyalty reminiscent of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom and Margaret Mitchell's Mammy.
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"It's quite possible that the jobs she had as a domestic were a cover that she was using because she clearly made her money from investments," Lynn Hudson, who wrote the 290 biography "The Making of 'Mammy Pleasant,'" told The New York Times.
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Hattie McDaniel was the first to win, picking up the Best Supporting Actress award in 1939 for her portrayal of Mammy in Gone With the Wind, accepting her award in a segregated hotel that normally did not allow black people as guests, per The Hollywood Reporter.
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Parker: I've been reading a lot of Ishmael Reed because I'm getting ready to do an event with him, thinking about these little phrases, what are these characters, and even the mammy and Br'er Rabbit—it's interesting when we use stereotypes, these racist iterations of us.
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The place is packed chockablock with clusters of objects grouped by type: alarm clocks (maybe two dozen), antique books, model clipper ships, African masks, birdcages, globes, painted wood watermelon slices, the Mexican healing charms known as milagros and so-called mammy dolls piled on a chair.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Atop Kara Walker's large-scale drawing "The Pool Party of Sardanapalus (after Delacroix, Kienholz)" (2017), currently on view at Sikkema Jenkins, a mammy reclines; below, a group of young girls pull the entrails from a white man held down on the ground.
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The night they were supposed to elope, Frank's drunken, violent da and his battle-axe ma ("your classic Dublin mammy: five foot nothing of curler-haired, barrel-shaped don't-mess-with-this, fueled by an endless supply of disapproval") pitched a ghastly scene right out in the street.
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By singing about the old mammy days, when don't you know, nobody minded a bit being called "chocolate drop," Williams and Walker were laughing back at the white audiences who were laughing at them — with an irony that said out the side of its mouth, Are they actually buying this?
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As this exhibition demonstrates, the institutional oversight is baffling, as her primary themes — racial justice and feminism (her 1972 breakthrough piece, "The Liberation of Aunt Jemima," merges the two by transforming the racist stereotype of the smiling black mammy into an armed freedom fighter) — are exactly attuned to the present.
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As this exhibition demonstrates, the institutional oversight is baffling, as her primary themes — racial justice and feminism (her 603 breakthrough piece, "The Liberation of Aunt Jemima," merges the two by transforming the racist stereotype of the smiling black mammy into an armed freedom fighter) — are exactly attuned to the present.
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As this exhibition demonstrates, the institutional oversight is baffling, as her primary themes — racial justice and feminism (her 2872 breakthrough piece, "The Liberation of Aunt Jemima," merges the two by transforming the racist stereotype of the smiling black mammy into an armed freedom fighter) — are exactly attuned to the present.
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As this exhibition demonstrates, the institutional oversight is baffling, as her primary themes — racial justice and feminism (her 231 breakthrough piece, "The Liberation of Aunt Jemima," merges the two by transforming the racist stereotype of the smiling black mammy into an armed freedom fighter) — are exactly attuned to the present.
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As this exhibition demonstrates, the institutional oversight is baffling, as her primary themes — racial justice and feminism (her 233 breakthrough piece, "The Liberation of Aunt Jemima," merges the two by transforming the racist stereotype of the smiling black mammy into an armed freedom fighter) — are exactly attuned to the present.
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She explores mysticism, astrology (Saar is a Leo), and magical religious practices of the Afrodiaspora, formulating what she refers to as an "occult atmosphere," translated not only in these mystical iconographies but in the haunting racial histories of her appropriated objects from Jim Crow, like mammy dolls and Sambo figurines.
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Halftime Reënactments of Classic Scenes from "Gone with the Wind" Because progress cannot be achieved until we understand our past, the league encourages players to educate fans—and themselves—by reliving the passion and the romance of the Old South through the timeless characters of Scarlett O'Hara, Rhett Butler, Ashley Wilkes, and Mammy.
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We follow them, the "wee poofter" and his "hoor" of a mammy, through roughly a decade of heartbreak and squalor, a more or less Jobian arc of things going from bad to worse to excruciating, and the book would be just about unbearable were it not for the author's astonishing capacity for love.
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Famous for its blueberry lemonade and down-home fare, this restaurant, serving only lunch (it first opened in 1940) is in the shape of a smiling, eager-to-please Aunt Jemima-esque "mammy" wearing a really big skirt in the shape of a dome; customers dine — astonishingly — under the skirt of this degrading stereotype.
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She wasn't the super nice and/or funny type, she wasn't necessarily a good friend, she wasn't desperate for a family, and she certainly wasn't a self-sacrificing mammy solely there to take care of someone else — though she was occasionally accused of this by her father, which was another dimension of their complicated relationship.
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On the second floor, Patrick Rooney, 54, an electrician, waited for a talk on the role of the "Irish mammy," or mother, in the rebellion with members of his extended family — a family related to the Connolly clan, a group of brothers and a sister who took part in the storming of Dublin Castle during the Rising.
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Kara Walker proved that in 2014, when she exhibited footage if the audience at her hugely popular installation at the former Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn earlier that year, where attendees photographed themselves pretending to play with the nipples and vulva of her 75-foot tall naked anthropomorphic mammy sculpture meant to reflect on black stereotypes.
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This black female figure, with outstretched arms and upturned hands (her hands and part of her forearms are a slightly darker brown, as if they had been dipped in some special oil or unguent), is at once ebullient and regal, thoughtful and magical, a female deity not from eons ago but from right now, and she is about as far from the mammy stereotype as could be.
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Black women have won Academy Awards in acting for playing, among other roles, an enslaved mammy (Hattie McDaniel in "Gone With the Wind"), a "magical Negro" capable of contacting the spirit world (Whoopi Goldberg in "Ghost"), a Jezebel (Halle Berry in "Monsters Ball"), a maid in the Jim Crow South (Octavia Spencer in "The Help") and a long suffering black wife and mother (Viola Davis in "Fences").
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There's something nice about believing Southerners have the sort of affinity for deliciousness more commonly associated with the Italians or the French, but it's a much less generous compliment when you consider the history of recipes credited only to "Mammy," or the tradition of calling the food of New Orleans a mixture of Spanish and French while ignoring the fact that most of the people cooking it are black.
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It does in the fierce hilarity of a short 1971 film called "Colored Spade" by Betye Saar that flashes racial stereotypes at us like rapid-fire bullets, and in a funky 1973 assemblage called "The Liberation of Aunt Jemima: Cocktail," by the same artist, which turns a California wine jug with a "mammy" image on one side and a Black Power fist on another, into a homemade bomb.
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The characters included the "coon," a denigrating synonym for anyone black; the "zip coon," the free black person depicted as a buffoon for affecting independence, literacy and fine dress; the rotund "mammy," who was made to stand in for all black women as she patrolled the kitchen wearing flowing clothes and an apron; and the pickaninny, the bestial child whose pigtails stood straight up in the air and who was often maligned as a watermelon thief.
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