Please Mammy, ca. 1899. Photographer unknown. Courtesy the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Making Mammy – A Caricature of Black Womanhood, 1840 – 1940

An exhibition at The California African American Museum curated by Tyree Boyd-Pates, History Curator and Program Manager, CAAM, Taylor Bythewood-Porter, Assistant History Curator, CAAM, and Brenda Stevenson, Professor and Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History …

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