Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Question and Answer
Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses to the proposed mammy memorial in Washington DC, and the mammy figure within Lost Cause discourse.
About Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
Kimberly Wallace-Sanders is Associate Professor of American Studies and Women’s Studies at Emory University. She received her PhD from Boston University and is the author of Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory (2008) and editor of Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (2002).