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Curatorial Walkthrough: Making Mammy: A Caricature of Black Womanhood, 1840–1940

Friday, November 15, 2019

01:00 PM – 02:00 PM

Red kerchief with white dots tied on head of dress form

<em>Making Mammy: A Caricature of Black Womanhood, 1840 - 1940</em> (Installation view) California African American Museum, September 25, 2019 – March 1, 2020. Photo: Elon Schoenholz

Curatorial Walkthrough: Making Mammy: A Caricature of Black Womanhood, 1840–1940

Friday, November 15, 2019

01:00 PM – 02:00 PM

Tour Making Mammy&#58; A Caricature of Black Womanhood, 1840–1940 with curators Taylor Bythewood-Porter, Assistant History Curator at CAAM, and Brenda Stevenson, UCLA history professor and guest curator. Hear more about how the mammy figure was created in an effort to temper the atrocities of enslavement and serve southern interests domestically, economically, and politically.