Blowin up the icon of mammy with daredevil humor, educated outrage and ridiculous grace. back
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Chashama
presents a Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts Inc. Production of Every
Monday @ 8PM, The Mammy Project, written by Michelle Matlock and directed by Joan Evans, finally confronts the American stereotype of Mammy as a white man’s fantasy, a black woman’s history and a country’s favorite product. As performed by Michelle Matlock this project travels from the life and times of Nancy Green (the first woman hired to play the part of a mammy), through the minstrel show era and silver-screen Mammies, to the present day where Aunt Jemima is still bought and sold from her pancake box prison [more].
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