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Noun Concept
Categories: Ageism, African-American gender relations, Stereotypes of working class women, African-American-related controversies, Blackface minstrel characters
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mammy  mammy stereotype  Old auntie  black mammy  Black mammy figure
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An offensive term for a Black nursemaid in the southern U.S. WordNet 3.0
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archetype
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An offensive term for a Black nursemaid in the southern U.S. WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A mammy is a U.S. historical stereotype depicting black women who work in a family and nurse the family's children. Wikipedia
A stock portrayal of a black woman who cared for or served people in a white family Wikipedia Disambiguation
Archetypal stock character of a rotund, homely, and matronly black woman Wikidata
In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children; or in the antebellum South, a female slave who was close to the household and looked after the children. Wiktionary
IS A
nanny
original
stock character
USAGE DOMAIN
disparagement
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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mammy
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mammy stereotype
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Mammy
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mammy
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black mammy, Black mammy figure, mammie, mammy (archetype), Mammy archetype, mammy archetype in the United States, mammy figure, Old auntie, Old Auntie

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