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Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima - Manring, Maurice M
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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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Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima 1998, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville

ISBN-13: 9780813918112

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