Mammy and Uncle Mose : Black collectibles and American stereotyping / Kenneth Goings.
Mammy and Uncle Mose : Black collectibles and American stereotyping / Kenneth Goings.
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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1994.
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N873.0496073/1
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English
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Physical content
xxiv, 123 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Contents
Introducing Aunt Jemima and Uncle Mose -- 1. The Birth and Adolescence of Aunt Jemima and Uncle Mose: Collectibles as Personifications of Stereotypes -- 2. Aunt Jemima and Uncle Mose Back on the Plantation: Collectibles as the "Old Folks" at Home -- 3. Aunt Jemima and Uncle Mose as Domestics: The Ki...
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Publisher
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1994.
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Indiana
Date Published
c1994.
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Summary
These items of material culture were props that helped reinforce the "new" racist ideology that began emerging after Reconstruction. Then, as the nation changed, the images created of black people by white people changed. From the 1880s to the 1930s, black people were portrayed as very dark, bug-eyed, nappy-headed, childlike, stupid, lazy, deferent...
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Mammy and Uncle Mose : Black collectibles and American stereotyping / Kenneth Goings.
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Blacks in the diaspora.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [113]-118) and index.
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c1994.
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N873.0496073/1
Record Identifier
74VKOydAO43M
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKOydAO43M
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ISBN
0253208815 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780253325921 (alk. paper)
0253325927 (alk. paper)
9780253208811 (pbk. : alk. paper)
DDC
700.89960730075
MMS ID
991022634149702626