Slave in a box : the strange career of Aunt Jemima
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Slave in a box : the strange career of Aunt Jemima
（The American South series）
University Press of Virginia, 1999
3rd pbk. printing
- : paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-206) and index
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This study addresses the question of why the troubling figure of Aunt Jemima has endured in American culture. The author traces the evolution of the mammy from her roots in Old South slave reality and mythology to Aunt Jemima's symbolic role in the Civil Rights movement.
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