https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammy_stereotype
Mauma Mollie. She died in the 1850s at her master's family home in Florida. A family member described her as nursing "nearly all of the children in the family" and said that they loved her as a "second mother". " Mammy's Cupboard", 1940 novelty architecture restaurant in Adams County, Mississippi. A mammy is a U.S. historical stereotype depicting black women, usually enslaved, who did domestic

https://spokesman-recorder.com/2020/02/05/mammy-and-how-racist-stereotypes-impact-black-women/
One of the first fictional mammies appears in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) as the character Aunt Chloe. Mammy lives on through the advertising trademark Aunt Jemima, which has graced store shelves since her debut in 1893.U.S. songs like "Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose" (1916) were played in local communities across North America, and served as a reminder that the dominant culture

https://theconversation.com/i-am-not-your-nice-mammy-how-racist-stereotypes-still-impact-women-111028
U.S. songs like "Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose" (1916) were played in local communities across North America, and served as a reminder that the dominant culture considered Black women to be

https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/mammies/homepage.htm
The mammy caricature implied that black women were only fit to be domestic workers; thus, the stereotype became a rationalization for economic discrimination. During the Jim Crow period, approximately 1877 to 1966, America's race-based, race-segregated job economy limited most black people to menial, low paying, low status jobs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/arts/mammy-jars-black-history-month.html
March 27, 2019. The mammy caricature, perpetuated by racist objects like dolls and ceramics, portrayed black women as subservient. Gabe Palmer/Alamy. Mammy kitchen items, including jars, salt and

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2015/05/12/what-else-black-moms-know-how-to-parent-beyond-racial-stereotypes/
Like the Tiger Mom before her, Caviness' Know-It-All Black Mom is an archetype based on racial stereotypes—the sometimes sassy, idealized black caretaker, Mammy, as well as a retread of the

https://mom.com/momlife/what-its-like-to-exist-as-a-black-mom-right-now
Like so many others, I hoped for dramatic change in the wake of George Floyd's death.Rallies worldwide protested both systematic racism and police brutality. People of all races and ethnic backgrounds were engaging in conversations about equality, acknowledging how different the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous people of color) experience is and calling for change.

https://sacobserver.com/2022/03/generational-ties-understanding-black-mothers-and-their-adult-children/
Other groups come to the Black mothers' defense. In one article, Admirable or Ridiculous: The Burdens of Black Women Scholars and Dialogue in the Work of Solidarity, author Darrius D'wayne Hills noted that Mama Pope (Olivia Pope's mother) from ABC's show "Scandal" said it best: "I tell you, being a Black woman — be strong, they say.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/magazine/black-mothers-babies-death-maternal-mortality.html
The Listening to Mothers Survey III, a national sampling of 2,400 women who gave birth in 2011 and 2012, found that more than a quarter of black women meet their birth attendants for the first

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-listening-post/2020/7/26/mammy-jezebel-and-sapphire-stereotyping-black-women-in-media/
Mammy, Jezebel and Sapphire: Stereotyping Black women in media. Submissive, sexy, sassy - the three reductive depictions of Black women that we continue to see on our screens today. Read more.

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/08/black-mothers-joy-weapon/619713/
The Persistent Joy of Black Mothers. Characterized throughout American history as symbols of crisis, trauma, and grief, these women consistently reject those narratives through world-making of

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5096656/
Intersectionality and Stereotypes of Black Women in the United States. Intersectionality theory is rooted in the experiences and ideas of Black activists and scholars, particularly Black feminist activist-scholars who sought to bring to light the marginalization of Black women's experiences and the interconnections among multiple systems of oppression (e.g., Collins, 2000; Combahee River

https://www.womenshealthmag.com/relationships/a38945511/dating-as-a-black-woman-discrimination-racism-colorism/
Crawford's experience isn't rare, unfortunately. The dating landscape for Black women is often bleak and unwelcoming. Both online and IRL, Black women are navigating a dating world filled with

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/opinion/sunday/what-black-moms-know.html
Dating back to slavery, black moms have had to hold a strong grip on their children's behavior. Only a foolish mother would risk boosting her child's self-esteem to the point where he might be

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/parenting/the-shadow-behind-black-mothers-and-their-sons.html
A Black mother describes her many hopes for her child, and all come tinged with a nagging dread. Psychiatrist Christin Drake, photographed at her home in Flanders, N.Y., understands that the

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/02/1011891090/these-black-moms-gave-birth-early-they-dont-want-their-experiences-to-be-normal
Nicolas Cadena. Like many Black women, Shantay Davies-Balch and Sabrina Beavers delivered their babies earlier than they'd hoped. The two friends came to StoryCorps in 2019 to speak about the

https://afro.com/wordinblack-black-single-mothers-can-do-it-alone-but-why-should-they-have-to-when-resources-are-all-around/
In 2020, there were roughly 4.25 million Black families in the United States with a single mother, according to nationwide statistics. This is an uptick from 1990 rates of about 3.4 million Black

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/28/882383372/a-black-mother-reflects-on-giving-her-3-sons-the-talk-again-and-again
This time around, it's been more about what's not fair. You know, 'This just isn't fair, you guys. But this is the way the world is. This is the way America is right now.

https://www.scarymommy.com/lifestyle/importance-sisterhood-black-women
As a mom, I joined Mocha Moms to find the same sense of sisterhood with fellow Black moms. I was once again in search of friendships with women that have a shared experience. The unfortunate truth is Black women also have unique experiences in raising Black children that our non-Black counterparts may never fully understand. ... Black women

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/29/opinions/wealthiest-black-moms-childbirth-mortality-allers/index.html
In practice, principle, research, advocacy and messaging, we must leave no Black woman behind. Kimberly Seals Allers, executive director of Narrative Nation, a non-profit that creates technology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammy_Two_Shoes
Mammy Two Shoes is a fictional character in MGM's Tom and Jerry cartoons. She is a middle-aged African American woman who is the housemaid in the house which Tom and Jerry reside. However, the fact that she has her own bedroom in the short Sleepy-Time Tom (1951) raises the possibility of her being the owner of the house, as no other human is present in the house in shorts she appears.

https://www.sheknows.com/parenting/slideshow/2539829/black-moms-made-history/
Ann Lowe. Fashion designer Ann Lowe didn't begin her career in fashion until she was a mother. After separating from her first husband, Lowe and her son moved to New York City, where she

https://mcpress.mayoclinic.org/pregnancy/black-maternal-mortality-rate/
Maternal mortality rates: Black vs. white in the U.S. Based on most recent estimates, non-Hispanic Black women are 2.6 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women. For Black women 25 and older, pregnancy-related mortality is about four times higher than it is for white women of similar ages, according to data

https://people.com/mom-allegedly-threw-baby-trash-fight-walmart-police-8670682
Mom Allegedly Threw Her 6-Month-Old Baby in Trash When She Got into Fight at Walmart. ... Woman Arranged Fake Car Date with Man, Then Another Man Jumped Out of Trunk and Stabbed Victim 19 Times.

https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-mammy-myth-and-what-it-really-is-like-to-be-a-white-peoples-caretaker-5eaebf23905f
This article is the first one of 'The Black Female Trope' series. In this series, I reflect on the three stereotypes Black women have historically been reduced to: Mammy, Jezebel, and Sapphire.

https://mama.globalfundforwomen.org/bigideas/being-black-mom
The moons to my black North star. But from the moment I became a mother I felt my universe shift. My identity forever altered in a way that I had never suspected. I entered motherhood double-degreed, successful, high earning, and unmarried, and it became clear from the glances of nurses and the blaringly empty "Father's Name" line on my child's

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2024/06/21/gatlinburg-bear-touched-woman-and-child-will-be-euthanized/74161670007/
A trap has been set for a black bear in Gatlinburg that came dangerously close to a woman and child this week, even grabbing the woman's clothing outside a hotel, according to the Tennessee

https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-vanishes-hiking-trail-san-diego-search-underway/story?id=111363333
The body of a woman believed to be a missing 50-year-old hiker was found Monday, a day after she went missing on a trail in a wilderness area in San Diego, according to police.. The hiker

https://medium.com/national-center-for-institutional-diversity/vulnerability-and-strength-black-mothers-raising-free-black-girls-97c935138568
Photo by 5540867 from Pixabay. This piece is a part of our Spark series: Celebrating Black Women and Girls — 50 Years of Black Women's Studies "I hate you!" I look down at my daughter

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/china/japanese-mother-child-stabbed-china-bus-stop-intl-hnk/index.html
A Japanese woman and her child were among three people stabbed by a man on Monday in front of a school bus at a bus stop in eastern China, according to Japanese authorities. A Chinese woman school