The Mammy and Aunt Jemima Cover-Up

Gone with the Wind is a film that gives a distorted picture of slavery that is conveyed to a great extent in the depiction of Scarlett's Mammy, played by Hattie McDaniel.  Janell Hobson writes about the contrast between this fantasized Mammy and the real-life situation of being sexually subjugated by white men in Ms. Magazine's blog, "The Fantasy of Mammy, the Truth of Patsey" (March 5, 2014).