Aug 5, 2021 - Mammy's Revenge?: with Morgan State University Archivist Dr. Ida Jones

Our talk today, Mammy’s Revenge, is partially based in film
historian and author Donald Boogle's book “Toms, Coons,
Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks
in American Films,” which he released in 1973. In the book, Bogle
describes a mammy figure as "representative of the all-Black
woman, over-weight, middle-aged, and so dark, so thoroughly
black, that it is preposterous even to suggest that she be a sex
object. Instead, she was desexed."


Almost 50 years later, we see women who could fit this
description to some degree not only gain power, but use it,
including:

Also, job applicants with ethnic minority sounding names are less
likely to be called for an interview was a hot topic six years
ago, but now we see women with such names in power and using it,
including:

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