Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima is a 1998 non-fiction book by Maurice M. Manring, published by University of Virginia Press. It covers Aunt Jemima.
 Title page for Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima (1998) | |
| Author | Maurice M. Manring |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Aunt Jemima |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Publication date | 1998 |
| Publication place | United States |
According to Publishers Weekly, the book focuses more on how marketing used desires from White Americans to sell products and less on a history of Aunt Jemima.[1] Manring stated that Aunt Jemima was used a form of nostalgia for housewives who were unable to have servants but wanted them.[2]
Andrea Higbie, in The New York Times, stated that the book shows how Aunt Jemima is "a damaging racial image."[3]
Background
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Manring was an independent scholar. He resided in Columbia, Missouri when the book was released.[3]
Reception
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Myrtle Gonza Glascoe of Gettysburg College wrote that the work is "a must read" for people wishing to explore how capitalist countries have concepts about class, gender, and race.[4]
References
edit- Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza (1999). "Manring M. M. Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima. (The American South Series). Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. 219pp. Paper $14.95". History of Education Quarterly. 39 (4): 503–504. doi:10.2307/369945. JSTOR 369945.
Notes
edit- ↑ "Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 245, no. 8. p. 59. Retrieved 2025-06-03.
- ↑ Chideya, Farai (2007-01-02). "Revisiting Aunt Jemima: 'Slave in a Box'". News & Notes. National Public Radio. Retrieved 2025-06-03.
- 1 2 Higbie, Andrea (1998-10-25). "Books in Brief: University Presses Nonfiction". The New York Times. Retrieved 2025-06-03. - Old view of the page
- ↑ Glascoe, p. 504.
Further reading
edit- Diller, Frank (1999). ""Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima", by M. M. Manring (Book Review)". The Mississippi Quarterly. 53 (1): 161. JSTOR 26476947.
- Goings, Kenneth W (1999). "MANRING, "Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima" (Book Review)". The Journal of Southern History. 65 (3): 656. doi:10.2307/2588178. JSTOR 2588178.
- Levenstein, Harvey (2000). "M.M. Manring, Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima". Labour. 45 (45): 321. ProQuest 218787177.
- Rhodes, Chip (2000). "Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima". The Journal of American History. 87 (3): 1063–1064. doi:10.2307/2675362. JSTOR 2675362.
- Salem, Dorothy C. (2000). "M. M. Manring. "Slave in a Box" (Book Review)". The Historian. 62 (2): 416.
- Schmid, Oona (1998). "MANRING, "Slave in a Box" (Book Review)". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 82 (4): 921. JSTOR 40583937.
- Smith, Gerald L. (October 1999). "Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima . By M. M. Manring (Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1998) 210 pp. $47.50 cloth $14.95 paper". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 30 (2): 350–352. doi:10.1162/jinh.1999.30.2.350.
- Thomas, Sabrina Lynette (2001). "Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima". Transforming Anthropology. 10 (1): 58–59. doi:10.1525/tran.2001.10.1.58. - Available at ProQuest
- Weems, Robert E. (1999). "Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima. By Manring M. M. · Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998. xi + 210 pp. Bibliography and index. Cloth, $47.50. ISBN 0813917824; paper, $14.95. ISBN 0813918111". Business History Review. 73 (2): 298–300. doi:10.2307/3116253. JSTOR 3116253. - Available at ProQuest
- Predecessor article
- Manring, Maurice M. (September 1995). "Aunt Jemima Explained: The Old South, the Absent Mistress, and the Slave in a Box". Southern Cultures. 2 (1): 19–44. doi:10.1353/scu.1995.0059. JSTOR 26235388 – via Project MUSE. - Abstract