Jan 31, 2018
We connect with Dr. Kimberly Wallace Sanders to discuss the “Mammification of a Nation.” Thanks to the Duke Univ. Behind the Veil Project, we also hear 1st hand accounts from women who worked as domestics during Jim Crow. This is part 2 in our 4-part series on the Mammy caricature.
- Skin Deep. Spirit Strong: Critical Essays on the Black Female Body in American Culture: https://www.amazon.com/Skin-Deep-Spirit-Strong-American/dp/0472067079
- Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender and Southern Memory: https://www.amazon.com/Mammy-Century-Gender-Southern-Memory/dp/0472034014
- Duke University Behind the Veil Oral History Project: https://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/behindtheveil/
- Jessie Lee Chassion (LA) - https://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/behindtheveil_btvct06053/
- Cora Randle Fleming (MS) - https://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/behindtheveil_btvct03032/
- Willie Pearl Butler (TN) - https://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/behindtheveil_btvct04110/
- WPA - Slave Narratives: https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/
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