Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-206) and index.
Contents
Cracking jokes in the Confederate supermarket -- Someone's in the kitchen: mammies, mothers, and others -- From minstrel shows to the World's Fair: the birth of Aunt Jemima -- They wre what they are: James Webb Strong and the recontruction of American advertising -- The Old South, the absent mistress, and the slave in a box -- The secret of the Bandanna: the mammy in contemporary society.