Slave in a Box

Slave in a Box

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

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.

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. Manring stated that Aunt Jemima was used a form of nostalgia for housewives who were unable to have servants but wanted them.

Andrea Higbie, in The New York Times, stated that the book shows how Aunt Jemima is "a damaging racial image."

Background

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Manring was an independent scholar. He resided in Columbia, Missouri when the book was released.

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.

References

• 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.

Further reading

• 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

External links

• Slave in a Box - University of Virginia Press
• Slave in a Box - Internet Archive