From Mammy to Miss America and Beyond: Cultural Images and the Shaping of US Social Policy

by Jewell,K. Sue

• ISBN13: 9780415042536
• ISBN10: 0415042534
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-12-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Passionately written and supported with detailed evidence,From Mammy to Miss America and Beyonddiscusses how stereotypes of Black women, generated by American society's most powerful institutions, have contributed to their continuing oppression. K. Sue Jewell examines how the media and government policy makers generated and promoted Mammy and Aunt Jemima images of African-American women. She also focuses on the resurgence of the "bad black girl image" in the 1970's, culminating in the controversy surrounding the first African-American Miss America, Vanessa Williams.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xii
The Status of African American Women	p. 1
The Social Significance of Cultural Imagery	p. 15
Cultural Images as Symbols of African American Womanhood	p. 35
Imagery of African American Womanhood	p. 55
Cultural Imagery of African American Women and Empiricism	p. 76
Gender-Oriented Social Policy	p. 99
The Us Legal System	p. 123
Determining Entitlements	p. 142
A Microcultural Response	p. 162
Redefining Images of African American Womanhood and Reshaping Social Policy	p. 183
Notes	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 222
Name Index	p. 231
Subject Index	p. 234
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