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Representations of Mammy have had a pervasive influence on the American literary and cultural imagination. This groundbreaking book traces the mammy figure at various historical moments linked to phases in America's racial consciousness. Its comprehensive, integrated approach features color illustrations of varied depictions of the mammy figure from the nineteenth century to the present."An engaging study of mammy, ' the provocative figure of the African American nanny, cook, and housekeeper in white households . . . Wallace-Sanders reveals . . . disturbing innuendos of mammy still relevant...

The essays in Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture chart the ways that the simultaneous interrogation of gender, race, and corporeality shape the construction of black female representation. Kimberly Wallace-Sanders has enlisted a wide variety of scholarly perspectives and critical approaches about the place of black women's bodies within the American cultural consciousness. An impressive gathering of essays and visual art by feminist scholars and artists, the book presents a persuasive argument for broadening the ongoing scholarly conversations about the body....

Whenever Grandma baked her chocolate cakes the folks in our neighborhood would jump up and down, yell across town, flip and dip, dance and prance, and scream and dream of tasting a slice of her famous, delicious chocolate cake. Everybody wanted one of Grandmas chocolate cakes: the banker, the butcher, the undertaker, the preacher, Auntie Kimmie, Uncle Rick, and of course, Angie In the story Angie gets caught-up in making an impression on the popular girls and ignores Donnie's message that her cake is ready and Grandma is waiting ... she eventually arrives too late for that famous Chocolate...

"Sometimes I feel like getting up with the sun. Other times I feel like sleeping until the day is done." Kimberly Wallace has mastered the art of learning through imagery and opposites. Sometimes, Other times captures the truthful feelings of all of us from a child's perspective. This book validates that it's really o.k. to "feel" and gives us all a delightful gateway to express our feelings of sometimes and other times.