About 10 minutes after I entered, quickly scanning booths to see if anything caught my eye, I noticed a set of dark figurines lined up on a vendor’s table. “Are those mammy dolls?” ...

A few months later, I was in a Bay Area flea market walking the aisles, scanning for brightly colored batik shawls, when my eyes snapped to antique figurines of Mammy and Uncle. The booth was ...

Mammy figurines. Lawn jockeys. And worse. In Richmond and beyond, explore an antiques store and you can almost always find them: caricatures of African Americans that you might think were ...

For years, my father has been an avid garage sale enthusiast, heading out on Saturday mornings to search for deals on everything from gently used furniture to unwanted jewelry. Garage sales ...

In 1972 Betye Saar made her name with a piece called “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima.” She reconfigured a ceramic mammy figurine– a stereotypical image of the kindly and unthreatening domestic seen in ...

and 'mammy' figurines are still sold in the French Quarter alongside Tabasco jars. Tumblr, with its immediacy and reach, can help to undermine and overthrow those negative images with ones that ...

About 10 minutes after I entered, quickly scanning booths to see if anything caught my eye, I noticed a set of dark figurines lined up on a vendor’s table. “Are those mammy dolls?” ...