Grass, Glitter and Gingham: Victoria Dugger confronts the Southern Gothic in ‘Must Be Nice’
The mammy was never just a caricature — she was a weapon. The joke that was never funny with Black women at the butt of it. Mascots trapped in white kitchens nursing white children. The mammy has always been a monster, stitched together by white imagination, sold back to America as comfort, made to grin...
The mammy was never just a caricature — she was a weapon. The joke that was never funny with Black women at the butt of it. Mascots trapped in white kitchens nursing white children. The mammy has always been a monster, stitched together by white imagination, sold back to America as comfort, made to grin...
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