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mammy

noun

ˈma-mē

Definition of mammy

as in mother

a female human parent the toddler clung to her mammy and eyed the strangers fearfully

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Recent Examples of mammy The Help in 2011, doesn’t seem to get that Ma operates as a black-mammy stereotype. — Armond White, National Review, 7 June 2019 The song features a mammy, a racial stereotype of the Black female caretaker figure devoted to her white family. — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 30 June 2020 One example given is the Aunt Jemima brand and logo, a depiction of an older Black woman based on the archetype of a mammy. — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 1 Mar. 2021 Saar enlarged the slave ship image, printed it onto the surface of the ironing board, and at one end superimposed the image of a black woman ironing, dressed stereotypically as a mammy. — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019 No human being deserves to be in a cage, but this notion that Black women must play mammy and Moses for the world is killing us, while police officers with licenses to kill are murdering our children. — Kirsten West Savali, Essence, 3 Oct. 2019 But what complicates Hildi is the history of how black women, and especially slaves, have been treated in real life (raped, beaten) and depicted onscreen (as mammies or Jezebels). — Aisha Harris, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2019 These include typecasting Black women as jezebels, sapphires and mammies; these depictions, combined with the law enforcement they may be exposed to, increase their vulnerability under the law. — Kerry Lester Kasper, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025 Toxic archetypes of Black womanhood—the mammy, the Black matriarch, the jezebel (or the Scraggle Daggle, in SYSBM parlance), and the welfare mother—are all alive and well in the Black Manosphere. — Nicole Young, ELLE, 26 Jan. 2022

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The infant, who is 9 months old, was rescued along with her mother, the State Department told Fox News Digital.

— Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
Parents wept over the loss of their children, while mothers and other female relatives cried and beat their chests in grief.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 1 July 2026

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Chiefs game Swift made headlines when she was photographed sitting next to Kelce's mom, Donna, at a Kansas City Chiefs game in September 2023.

— Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
They were first spotted together as a couple in September 2023, when Swift attended a Kansas City Chiefs game alongside Kelce’s mom, Donna Kelce.

— Kase Wickman, Vanity Fair, 3 July 2026

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