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Mammy is a variant of "mother". It is no longer in common use and, when used today to refer to a black woman, it is considered an ethnic slur. Faces of mother and child; detail of sculpture at Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Female mallard duck and ducklings. ...
A slur can be anything from an insinuation or critical remark to an insult. ...
However, it was and is also in common use in Ireland and parts of Great Britain where it is still used as an affectionate term for mother.
Archetype The mammy archetype is another kind of domestic servant who was an earth mother type, good-natured, often overweight, sometimes jovial and loud. An archetype is a generic, idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are derived, copied, patterned, or emulated. ...
The Earth Mother is a motif that appears in many mythologies. ...
A "wet-mammy" was a term used for a female domestic servant that acted as a nanny and was also assigned the duty to nurse the child in lieu of the child's mother, often due to the mother's fear of disfigurement of the breasts as a result of nursing.
In pop culture A number of variations and usage of the mammy character became prominent in pop culture during the pre-civil rights period. One of the most notable examples is Aunt Jemima, a mascot for Quaker Oats's Aunt Jemima brand pancakes, pancake flour and mixes, and syrup. In recent years, the packaging has been redesigned to replace the mammy image with a more contemporary image. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Aunt Jemima is a trademark for pancake flour, syrup, and other breakfast foods. ...
Millie, once mascot of the City of Brampton, is now the Brampton Arts Councils representative. ...
Quaker Oats Company makes many types and flavors of oatmeal. ...
Two pancakes with maple syrup. ...
For other uses, see Flour (disambiguation). ...
In cooking, a syrup (from Arabic شراب sharab, beverage, via Latin siropus) is a thick, viscous liquid, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars, but showing little tendency to deposit crystals. ...
In music, film, radio, and television Mammy characters were a staple of blackface minstrelsy, giving rise to many sentimental show tunes dedicated to or mentioning mammies, including Al Jolson's My Mammy from The Jazz Singer and Judy Garland's performance of Swanee from A Star is Born. Various "Mammy" characters would appear in radio and TV shows. One prominent example was the radio and later short-lived TV show Beulah, which featured a black maid named Beulah who helped solve a Caucasian family's problems. The manner in which the black maid was depicted on the show led to charges by the NAACP that the show was perpetuating a racist mammy stereotype. In the 1940s and early 1950s, Mammy Two Shoes, the housekeeper in Tom and Jerry presented an animated example of the stereotype, complete with dark skin and an African American accent. The 1984 Frank Zappa album Thing Fish featured characters called "mammy nuns". Detail from cover of The Celebrated Negro Melodies, as Sung by the Virginia Minstrels, 1843 The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface or, especially after the American Civil War, African Americans in blackface. ...
The Jazz Singer is a 1927 U.S. musical film. ...
Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson, May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was an acclaimed American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1911 until his death in 1950. ...
Beulah magazine ad For other uses, see Beulah. ...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is one of the oldest and most influential hate organizations in the United States. ...
Mammy Two Shoes, in a scene from Old Rockin Chair Tom. ...
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An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ...
In video games The videogame Chrono Cross, released in 1999, features a character named "Macha" who is reminiscent of a mammy character. She is a portly, black housewife who tolerates no sass from her children. She also fights with a frying pan and folds enemies like laundry. In the original Japanese version of the game, Macha was called "Mamacha". Image File history File links Macha_portrait. ...
Image File history File links Macha_portrait. ...
Chrono Cross ) is a console role-playing game created by Square Co. ...
Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ...
See also Aunt Jemima is a trademark for pancake flour, syrup, and other breakfast foods. ...
This poster of a Samoan snake charmer inspired the common image of Mami Wata in Africa. ...
Uncle Tom is a pejorative for an African American who is perceived by others as behaving in a subservient manner to White American authority figures, or as seeking ingratiation with them by way of unnecessary accommodation. ...
Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1895 – October 26, 1952) was an African American actress. ...
Madame Sul-Te-Wan Madame Sul-Te-Wan (March 7, 1873 - February 1, 1959) was the stage name of an African-American stage and film actress whose career spanned over five decades. ...
Big Mommas House (2000) is a comedy starring Martin Lawrence. ...
External links - Pilgrim, David. "The Mammy Caricature". Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia. Ferris State University, Michigan.
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