TY - BOOK ID - 78071642 TI - From mammy to Miss America and beyond PY - 2002 SN - 0203221443 0203324463 1280323175 9780203324462 PB - London New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - African American women. KW - Afro-American women KW - Women, African American KW - Women, Negro KW - Women KW - United States KW - Social policy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78071642 AB - How do the mass media contribute to the social and economic advantages of the privileged and the subjection of African American women? Does America really care about providing equal opportunities for African American women? Passionately written and supported with detailed evidence this book shows the deeply rooted abiding cancer of oppresion in American society. It reveals the formal and informal ways in which African American women have been exluded from equal participation before and after the time of slavery. It will shock many who complacently believe that America is already a land on e ER -