HIST M151C Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Indentured Servant, Mammy Archetype, Toni Morrison
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Definition: disneyland: aunt jemima"s pancake house c 1960, house that resembled a southern plantation. She is a character that represents the classic, overweight, mammy archetype complete with the stereotypical red bandana on her head and so-called negro dialect. She is a regressive reminder of the cotton plantation. By shifting the analytical focus to people who create the racial categories than focusing on those affected by it, we reject the invisibility of whiteness. Significance: at this time, she was the only black employee at disneyland and she embodied the stereotype for black people were inherently inferior and their role in society was to serve; emphasized the racialization of servitude. Definition: vespucci was an italian explorer that read travel accounts of immigrants to america and created images based on these accounts. These images were circulated and reproduced in mass amounts, and dispersed throughout. The europeans were an illiterate population, and images taught them the colonization of the americas.
