Aunt Jemimas by Anne https://padlet.com/anniea1/auntjemima en-us 2014-08-28 13:32:29 UTC 2025-10-01 06:45:06 UTC hello@padlet.com Summary anniea1 https://padlet.com/anniea1/auntjemima/wish/32426754 This chapter details the work of Michele Norris's grandmother as a traveling Aunt Jemima. During her work for Quaker Oats, she visited small midwestern towns, some of which had never seen an African American before. "'I try to leave them with the best impression I can,'" says Ione. Despite her work and the stereotypes associated with the brand, Quaker oats never kept a record of Ione and the other women who served as regional representatives of the brand. Since then, Aunt Jemima has had many makeovers, losing the image of a woman who was rooted in slavery in favor of a "church council member" appearance. Michele Norris explores a prejudice that is both personal and national at the same time through the eyes of a pancake box.

]]> 2014-08-28 13:42:31 UTC https://padlet.com/anniea1/auntjemima/wish/32426754 The History of Aunt Jemima anniea1 https://padlet.com/anniea1/auntjemima/wish/32431279 The background behind the brand and some of the women who represented it.

]]> 2014-08-28 14:06:07 UTC https://padlet.com/anniea1/auntjemima/wish/32431279 Other reader's views on Aunt Jemima anniea1 https://padlet.com/anniea1/auntjemima/wish/32431833 Readers of the Grace of Silence who were impacted by this story:

]]> 2014-08-28 14:09:31 UTC https://padlet.com/anniea1/auntjemima/wish/32431833 One of the earliest portrayals of Aunt Jemima anniea1 https://padlet.com/anniea1/auntjemima/wish/32433129 2014-08-28 14:17:33 UTC https://padlet.com/anniea1/auntjemima/wish/32433129 Today's Aunt Jemima anniea1 https://padlet.com/anniea1/auntjemima/wish/32433261 2014-08-28 14:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/anniea1/auntjemima/wish/32433261 Quote: anniea1 https://padlet.com/anniea1/auntjemima/wish/32492139 "My children see the friendly black woman on the pancake box smiling at them and have no idea of the tortured history behind that smile. The Aunt Jemima they're growing up with is a far cry from the woman whose provenance and speech are rooted in slavery" (Norris 38).

]]> 2014-08-28 21:10:26 UTC https://padlet.com/anniea1/auntjemima/wish/32492139 Quote: anniea1 https://padlet.com/anniea1/auntjemima/wish/32492423 "She never told me about having worked for Quaker Oats, so reading the story was like listening to her speaking to me from the grave. She seems to be saying, don't be ashamed for me, because I am not. She said her aim was to give Americans a favorable opinion of her people: 'I'm a public representative of my race. I get the opportunity to meet little white children, children in small towns who have never seen a negro before. I try to leave them with the best impression I can'"(Norris 34)

]]> 2014-08-28 21:15:39 UTC https://padlet.com/anniea1/auntjemima/wish/32492423 Picture Bibliography anniea1 https://padlet.com/anniea1/auntjemima/wish/32532514 Aunt Jemima pictures (both from same site):

http://web.wm.edu/americanstudies/370/2005F/sp6/auntjemima_history.htm

]]> 2014-08-29 12:47:23 UTC https://padlet.com/anniea1/auntjemima/wish/32532514 Quote: anniea1 https://padlet.com/anniea1/auntjemima/wish/32533632 "The ads sold 'the promise that the buyer could appropriate the leisure, beauty, and raical and class status of the plantation South by purchasing a box of pancake flour.' Not pancakes but a way of life was being sold" (Norris 31).

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