Women slaves - bodies violated.
Mammy image perpetuates an idea.
Enslaved peoples. Marginalized peoples.
Caricature - features of a person exaggerated.
Stereotypes of black inferiority dominate America's landscape.
Stereotype - a mistaken idea or belief many people have about a thing or group that is based upon how they look on the outside.
Please Mammy, ca. 1899. Photographer unknown. Courtesy the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Betye Saar
Assemblage
1972
Further Reading:
Southern Spaces
Article, Octavia Spencer
Link to Kara Walker, Artist
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