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<p>[QUOTE="bluumz, post: 2346061, member: 649"]Here's another opinion.</p><p>From <b>1939</b>'s <i>The Journal of Negro History</i>, Vol. 23, No. 3, "The Role of the Black Mammy in the Plantation Household" by Jessie W. Pankhurst:</p><p><br /></p><p>"The present generation of Americans, both white and Negro, are acquainted with the "Black Mammy" as she has been handed down in tradition. They are acquainted with her as she is represented on the legitimate stage, in the moving pictures, and in fiction. Newspapers and periodicals from time to time print stories about this character, and people living who came under her influence relate their experiences with the "Mammy" to their children, friends, and acquaintances.</p><p><br /></p><p>"Negroes and whites in the South held different attitudes toward what came out of slavery. To the majority of Negroes anything that savored of the period of slavery was objectionable... To whites the period of slavery has been sentimentalized and glorified. Because the "Black Mammy" originated in and came out of the period of bondage she is an acceptable symbol to whites and an unacceptable one to Negroes."</p><p><br /></p><p>This has long been a bone of contention and, 80 years later, a mammy was <i>still </i>gracing the box of pancake mix.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bluumz, post: 2346061, member: 649"]Here's another opinion. From [B]1939[/B]'s [I]The Journal of Negro History[/I], Vol. 23, No. 3, "The Role of the Black Mammy in the Plantation Household" by Jessie W. Pankhurst: "The present generation of Americans, both white and Negro, are acquainted with the "Black Mammy" as she has been handed down in tradition. They are acquainted with her as she is represented on the legitimate stage, in the moving pictures, and in fiction. Newspapers and periodicals from time to time print stories about this character, and people living who came under her influence relate their experiences with the "Mammy" to their children, friends, and acquaintances. "Negroes and whites in the South held different attitudes toward what came out of slavery. To the majority of Negroes anything that savored of the period of slavery was objectionable... To whites the period of slavery has been sentimentalized and glorified. Because the "Black Mammy" originated in and came out of the period of bondage she is an acceptable symbol to whites and an unacceptable one to Negroes." This has long been a bone of contention and, 80 years later, a mammy was [I]still [/I]gracing the box of pancake mix.[/QUOTE]
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