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Aunt Jemima was an American breakfast brand for pancake mix, table syrup, and other breakfast food products. The original version of the pancake mix was developed in 1888–1889 by the Pearl Milling Company and was advertised as the first "ready-mix" cooking product. [1][2] Aunt Jemima was modeled after, and has been a famous example of, the ...
A mammy is a U.S. historical stereotype depicting Black women, usually enslaved, who did domestic work, among nursing children. [2] The fictionalized mammy character is often visualized as a dark-skinned woman with a motherly personality. The origin of the mammy figure stereotype is rooted in the history of slavery in the United States, as ...
Occupation (s) Nanny, cook, model. Known for. Aunt Jemima. Nancy Green (March 4, 1834 – August 30, 1923) was an American former slave, who, as "Aunt Jemima", was one of the first African-American models hired to promote a corporate trademark. The Aunt Jemima recipe was not her recipe, but she became the advertising world's first living trademark.
Many of these harmful characters were created for minstrel shows, the most popular form of entertainment in the United States in the 1800s. "Minstrel show entertainment was a kind of precursor to ...
The old Aunt Jemima brand and logo was based on a racist "mammy" stereotype.
Aunt Jemima syrup and pancakes will be completely rebranded and their packages redesigned, Quaker Oats announced on Wednesday, out of recognition that "Aunt Jemima's origins are based on a racial ...
Another more obvious extension of the Mammy, which has remained at the center of American culture for decades, is the brand Aunt Jemima. [21] Aunt Jemima, mostly geared towards white people, plays into the nostalgia of the historical south, she represents love, acceptance and the desire to please which, by extension many argue negates the ...
Billy Kersands (c. 1842 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana – June 30, 1915 in Artesia, New Mexico) was an African-American comedian and dancer. He was the most popular black comedian of his day, best known for his work in blackface minstrelsy. In addition to his skillful acrobatics, dancing, singing, and instrument playing, Kersands was renowned for ...