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A mammy, also spelled mammie, is a U.S. stereotype, especially in the South, for a black woman who worked in a white family and nursed the family's children.

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  1. Mythification of the Mammy Figure http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA99/diller/mammy/fiction.html
  2. Walker-Barnes (2014), p. 85-88
  3. "The Mammy Caricature". https://ferris.edu/jimcrow/mammies/. 
  4. Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly (2008). Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. pp. 3,6. ISBN 0472034014. 
  5. The Journal of Negro History https://www.jstor.org/stable/2714687
  6. From Mammy to Miss America and Beyond https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=wVTdO9WFB_8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=from+mammy+to+miss+america+and+beyond&ots=VLJiBMsexR&sig=j1j5Y2lLK9aJvmzboVUNvd5A-60#v=onepage&q&f=false
  7. Carpenter, Tracy (December 1, 2012). "Construction of the Crack Mother Icon". Western Journal of Black Studies. 
  8. Haskell, Molly (2010). Frankly, My Dear: Gone With the Wind Revisited. Icons of America. Yale University Press. pp. 213–214. ISBN 978-0-300-16437-4.  https://books.google.com/books?id=V-g1USyUYIwC&pg=PA213
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