Mammy and Uncle Mose examines the production and consumption of black collectibles and memorabilia from the 1880s to the late 1950s. Black collectibles - objects made in or with the image of a black person - were everyday items such as advertising cards, housewares (salt and pepper shakers, cookie jars, spoon rests, etc.), toys and games, postcards, souvenirs, and decorative knick-knacks. These objects were almost universally derogatory, with racially exaggerated features that helped ""prove"" that African Americans were ""different"" and ""inferior."" These items of material culture were props that helped reinforce the ""new"" racist ideology that began emerging after Reconstruction. Then, as the nation changed, the images created of black people by white people changed. From the 1880s to the 1930s, black people were portrayed as very dark, bug-eyed, nappy-headed, childlike, stupid, lazy, deferential - but happy! From the 1930s to the late 1950s, racial attitudes shifted again: African Americans, while still portrayed as happy servants, had ""brighter"" skin tones, and images of black women were slimmed down. By contextualizing ""black collectibles"" within America's complex social history, Kenneth W. Goings has opened a fascinating perspective on American history.

Mammy and Uncle Mose: Black Collectibles and American Stereotyping (Blacks in the Diaspora)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Goings, Kenneth W.

Antiques & Collectibles

Indiana University Press

"... an important evaluation of the impact of the nomination battle on the NAACP." —The American Journal of Legal History
"... provocative and extremely important... Goings does an excellent job of showing how the defeat of Parker catapulted the NAACP into a new era." —The North Carolina Historical Review
"... Goings has broadened our understanding of an important topic, and his book deserves a reading."Â —American Historical Review
"The NAACP Comes of Age is a valuable study of an important episode in political history." —The Historian
The NAACP's fight against John J. Parker's nomination to the Supreme Court in 1930 energized African Americans politically and prepared the way for the 1936 black-voter switch and the entry of African Americans into the New Deal Coalition. The confirmation debate in the Senate on Parker's nomination revealed that the issue of race in national politics, which had been ignored after Reconstruction, could no longer be overlooked.

"NAACP Comes of Age": The Defeat of Judge John J. Parker (Blacks in the Diaspora)

History

Americas

Mammy and Uncle Mose examines the production and consumption of black collectibles and memorabilia from the 1880s to the late 1950s. Black collectibles - objects made in or with the image of a black person - were everyday items such as advertising cards, housewares (salt and pepper shakers, cookie jars, spoon rests, etc.), toys and games, postcards, souvenirs, and decorative knick-knacks. These objects were almost universally derogatory, with racially exaggerated features that helped ""prove"" that African Americans were ""different"" and ""inferior."" These items of material culture were props that helped reinforce the ""new"" racist ideology that began emerging after Reconstruction. Then, as the nation changed, the images created of black people by white people changed. From the 1880s to the 1930s, black people were portrayed as very dark, bug-eyed, nappy-headed, childlike, stupid, lazy, deferential - but happy! From the 1930s to the late 1950s, racial attitudes shifted again: African Americans, while still portrayed as happy servants, had ""brighter"" skin tones, and images of black women were slimmed down. By contextualizing ""black collectibles"" within America's complex social history, Kenneth W. Goings has opened a fascinating perspective on American history.

Mammy and Uncle Mose: Black Collectibles and American Stereotyping (Blacks in the Diaspo)

The Classics in Black and White: Black Colleges, Classics Education, Resistance, and Assimilation

O'Connor, Eugene

University of Georgia Press

Classics In Black And White

O'Connor, Eugene Michael

Athens: University of Georgia Press

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