{"id":80,"date":"2017-09-05T10:49:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T10:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.curlythemes.com\/art-gallery-wp\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2022-02-09T16:54:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T16:54:47","slug":"cases","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibits.libraries.emory.edu\/framing-shadows\/cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Voices from
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A look inside the cases<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n

Texts and illustrations from the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library provide a visual and narrative journey for the compelling nanny portraits in this exhibit. They offer evidence of the fierce and fascinating debate about how the relationship between African American women and white children should be represented.<\/p>\n

The examples range from 19th-century southern plantation fiction to 21st-century poetry by[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n

prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey. The works offer perspectives from both African American and white authors, giving voices to the silent figures in the portraits. Some of the examples are well known, and some are more obscure. This journey raises more questions than answers.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInDown”]How can we use this exhibit to move forward and challenge ourselves to see the portraits in a new, more compassionate light?[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”5\/12″ offset=”vc_col-sm-offset-1″][vc_empty_space height=”64px”][vc_column_text el_class=”z-index–1 color-primary”]\n

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“‘Mammy’ has a peculiar hold on the American psyche. Her image is so overpowering that accurate representations – like these portraits – recede into the shadow of the stereotype.”<\/strong> \u2015 Dr. Wallace-Sanders<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”70px”][vc_single_image image=”1137″ img_size=”large” add_caption=”yes” style=”xtd-shadow–normal-normal” el_class=”xtd-offset-frame”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” curly_bg_repeat=”bg-no-repeat” curly_bg_position=”bg-pos-center-bottom” curly_bg_parallax=”true” curly_padding=”content-padding-lg” css=”.vc_custom_1586459372611{padding-top: 10rem !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}” el_id=”about-us” curly_section_title=”A Timeline of Voices” curly_section_color=”#b5b5b5″][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

A TIMELINE OF<\/small>Voices<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text]
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Illustration from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” U.S. First Edition, Page 62. Eliza comes to tell Uncle Tom that he is sold, and that she is running away to save her child. Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.<\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInRight” css=”.vc_custom_1586466587777{margin-top: -3em !important;}” el_class=”z-index–1 color-primary”]1852<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n

A Different View<\/h4>\n

In\u00a0Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin <\/em>(1852), Harriet Beecher Stowe presents an abolitionist\u2019s view of slavery and its devastating impact on African American families. In this illustration, Eliza chooses to run away to save her child from being sold. She asks Uncle Tom and Aunt Chloe, a stereotypical mammy character, to help her escape.[\/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=”View Additional Items from case 1″][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_masonry_media_grid element_width=”12″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1644425601782-c36cfa0e5acc748fd33cc8bff770e6bf-2″ include=”1446″][vc_column_text]Uncle Tom’s Cabin<\/em> Excerpt<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_masonry_media_grid element_width=”12″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1644425601838-4937c96ca620784909c78a3f60c11084-7″ include=”1448″][vc_column_text]Aunt Phillis’s Cabin<\/em> Excerpt<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_masonry_media_grid element_width=”12″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1644425601920-c76939d55766c7c60ba65ea4e90cabb7-4″ include=”1469″][vc_masonry_media_grid element_width=”12″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1644425601960-c000079bc8fcab9fadef2f61b892d596-3″ include=”1449″][vc_column_text]Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave<\/em> (Page 57) Excerpt<\/a><\/p>\n

 [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_masonry_media_grid element_width=”12″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1644425602034-0d993a622d12acca6a9f964f21b4809f-0″ include=”1447″][vc_column_text]Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave<\/em> (Page 28) Excerpt<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner]<\/div>

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Illustration of The Black Mammy Memorial Institute. The Black Mammy Memorial or Peace Monument, Athens, Georgia. Athens, GA: Banner Printery, ca. 1910. Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.<\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInLeft” css=”.vc_custom_1586466603979{margin-top: -3em !important;}” el_class=”z-index–1 color-primary”]1911<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n

The Black Mammy Memorial<\/h4>\n

In 1911 a small group of southerners drew up a proposal to build \u201cThe Black Mammy Memorial Institute\u201c in Athens, Georgia. The institute\u2019s supporters believed the school would serve multiple purposes: 1. It would honor the African American slave women who served as surrogate mothers and faithful slaves; 2. it would rectify the shortage of domestic servants caused by black migrations to the North; 3. it would reproduce the mammy\u2019s so-called \u201cbest qualities\u201d in the next generation of African Americans, teaching cooking, cleaning, sewing and child care.[\/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=”View Additional Items from case 2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_masonry_media_grid element_width=”12″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1644425602273-b00c89b77bfe98d136ebb4788e074302-8″ include=”1453″][vc_column_text]Mammy, A Story<\/em> Excerpt<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_masonry_media_grid element_width=”12″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1644425602357-47df28447703efc5c903826b9ee2159e-6″ include=”1456″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_masonry_media_grid element_width=”12″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1644425602416-acb721dac67e76ebf4f69a06ec5460db-5″ include=”1454″][vc_column_text]The Black Mother<\/em> Excerpt<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner]<\/div>

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Winold Riess, The brown Madonna, illustration, 1925. Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.<\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInRight” css=”.vc_custom_1586466617972{margin-top: -3em !important;}” el_class=”z-index–1 color-primary”]1925<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n

The New Negro and \u201cThe Brown Madonna\u201d<\/h4>\n

W. E. B. Du Bois\u2019s essay \u201cThe Black Mother\u201d announced a new representation of African American maternity as an emblem of the New Negro Movement (aka Harlem Renaissance). This is most apparent in the frontispiece of Alain Locke\u2019s seminal work The New Negro: An Interpretation <\/em>(1925). German artist Winold Reiss\u2019s drawing of \u201cThe Brown Madonna\u201d depicts an African American mother with her own child. Winold Reiss\u2019s drawings of African Americans during the 1920s were considered to be among the first positive depictions of African Americans by a white artist.[\/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=”View Additional Items from case 3″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_masonry_media_grid element_width=”12″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1644425602682-761e680f4d3ee7e3a600db656b67a62d-8″ include=”1433″][vc_column_text]Mammy: An Appeal to the Heart of the South<\/em> Excerpt<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_masonry_media_grid element_width=”12″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1644425602780-c75b5bfed40acdba4938d7fcd208a3be-5″ include=”1431″][vc_masonry_media_grid element_width=”12″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1644425602815-29e8e89e96915860b6abe13f3f35ee91-0″ include=”1434″][vc_column_text]The Gift of Black Folk<\/em> Excerpt<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_masonry_media_grid element_width=”12″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1644425602918-dafa59751d0786abe9a117b5e631468d-9″ include=”1430″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner]<\/div>

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Characters Scarlet O’Hara and Mammy photographed on the set of Gone With the Wind. Turner Theatrical Library.<\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInLeft” el_class=”z-index–1 color-primary”]1936<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n

Gone With the Wind<\/h4>\n

Like\u00a0Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/span><\/em>,\u00a0Gone with the Wind<\/span><\/em>\u00a0(1936) by Margaret Mitchell became a best-selling classic of fictionalized southern life that was later immortalized in film (1939). Mitchell affirms the mythology that mammies were a \u201cspecial breed\u201d of enslaved women in her characterization of \u201cMammy,\u201d whose familial ties have been sacrificed so she may belong more fully to the family who owns her. Removing her from contact with her own race, she does not even have a name for herself other than \u201cMammy.\u201d<\/span>[\/vc_column_text]<\/div>

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Draft of “Help, 1968” by Natasha Trethewey. Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.<\/h6>\n
Help, 1968 (Transfiguration, 1968)<\/em>\u00a0Excerpt.<\/a><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInRight” el_class=”z-index–1 color-primary”]1968<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n

A Woman Who Must Be The Maid<\/h4>\n

Natasha Trethewey begins \u201cHelp, 1968\u2033 (previously titled \u201cTransfiguration, 1968\u201d) by comparing the Robert Frank photograph Charleston, South Carolina <\/em>(<\/span><\/span>Like One of the Family<\/em> Excerpt<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_masonry_media_grid element_width=”12″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1644425603454-caaaeea50b0e183522c9a8436ffc5289-0″ include=”1443″][vc_column_text]South to a Very Old Place<\/em> Excerpt<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_masonry_media_grid element_width=”12″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1644425603601-4f40b4d88b6d798c426eb1e0d195d85b-3″ include=”1460″][vc_column_text]Help, 1968 (Transfiguration, 1968)<\/em> Edits Excerpt<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_masonry_media_grid element_width=”12″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1644425603684-a89a1b79f1b2ec5e49a9e824ea816601-1″ include=”1953″][vc_column_text]Help, 1968 (Transfiguration, 1968)<\/em> Excerpt<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_masonry_media_grid element_width=”12″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1644425603805-e4e8f841ecd673dad8bf239a559347e3-4″ include=”1441″][vc_column_text]Dessa Rose<\/em> Excerpt<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner]<\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”middle” curly_padding=”content-padding-lg” el_id=”staff-board” curly_section_title=”Accessing these materials” curly_section_color=”#b5b5b5″][vc_column width=”7\/12″][vc_column_text]\n

Accessing these Materials<\/h1>\n

Using Rose Library<\/h3>\n

The Rose Library<\/a> is located in the Robert W. Woodruff Library<\/a> in the heart of Emory University’s main Atlanta campus. We are a closed-stacks library which means that all of our holdings are accessible only in our on-site reading room. However, we welcome all researchers, whether you are researching an academic work or fulfilling a personal passion. You can use the below information to plan a visit or contact us with questions.<\/p>\n

The Emory University Libraries Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library promotes access and learning, equity and justice by documenting, preserving and making accessible distinctive and diverse collections and records; fostering original research and critical engagement with the past by engaging diverse communities through innovative outreach, programming, and exhibitions.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner gap=”35″][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n

Preparing for a research visit<\/h4>\n

Click the link below to find all of the information you need to prepare for a research visit to Rose Library. If you have any questions, please contact us at rose.library@emory.edu<\/a> or 404-727-6887.
\nPrepare for A Research Visit<\/a><\/p>\n

Regular Operating Hours<\/h4>\n

MONDAY-FRIDAY: 9:00am-5:00pm
\nSATURDAY: By Appointment Only
\nSUNDAY: Closed<\/p>\n

Library hours are subject to change. Please confirm we are open by clicking the link below.
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Making an appointment<\/h4>\n

Click on the link below to read our guidelines and make an appointment at the Rose Library.Make an Appointment<\/a><\/p>\n

Requesting Materials<\/h4>\n

Visitors to Rose Library are encouraged to register and submit a materials request in advance of their arrival. This can be done through either Emory’s book catalog,\u00a0Library Search<\/a>, or Emory’s\u00a0FindingAids Database<\/a>. Once you find an item you want, choose the “Request from…” link to create a user account and then submit the request. Scroll down for video tutorials on requesting.
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