Mammy as portrayed by Hattie McDaniel
I love the Mammy archetype and find it quite comforting frankly. So many are so embarrassed by what they believe to be a racist profile of African American womanhood but I beg to differ. Mammy showed incredible strength of character in Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" and she was a true heroine within the story. Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for her performance of Mammy being the first African-American actress to be so honored.
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