Clinging to Mammy

The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America

Micki McElya

  • 2007 Myers Center Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights

List of Illustrations

Introduction: The Faithful Slave

1. The Life of "Aunt Jemima"

2. Anxious Performances

3. The Line between Mother and Mammy

4. Monumental Power

5. The Violence of Affection

6. Confronting the Mammy Problem

Epilogue: Recasting the Faithful Slave

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: Clinging to Mammy

Micki McElya is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama.