Clinging to Mammy - The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America

Informationen zum Autor Micki McElya is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America and of The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery , which won the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize and the Sharon Harris Award and was a finalist for the Jefferson Davis Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Zusammenfassung Assertions of black contentment with servitude alleviated white fears while reinforcing racial hierarchy. McElya exposes the power and reach of this myth in advertising, films, and literature about the South, and in national monument proposals, child custody cases, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement.

Product details

• Authors: Micki McElya
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2007
• EAN: 9780674024335
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02433-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore