Mammy (disambiguation)

"Mammy" is a variant of "mother", used most prominently by blacks in the American South since the days of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

It is also commonly used in Ireland, often in reference to someone else's mother with the inference that the other person is immature- e.g. "Run home to your mammy, cry-baby".

"Mammy" is also:

*A racist archetype
*An ethnic slur when used to refer to a black woman.
*"Mammy" was a 1930 film, based on the play "Mr. Bones" by Irving Berlin. The film stars Al Jolson.
*Mammy, a key character in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film "Gone with the Wind", played by Hattie McDaniel. McDaniel won an Oscar for her performance.
*Mammy Two-Shoes is the character name for the black maid, voiced by Lillian Randolph, in MGM's "Tom and Jerry" cartoons. Her moniker derives from the fact that she is almost always seen only from the torso down. She was later replaced by a white woman after complaints over the character's racist, stereotypical depiction.
*A "Mammy" cookie jar or other figural of a usually dark-skinned, obese, large-breasted domestic servant, usually a cook or maid in an apron and headscarf.