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Tour Making Mammy: 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…
Curatorial Walkthrough: Making Mammy: A Caricature of Black Womanhood, 1840–1940
Friday, November 15, 2019
01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
<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: 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.