How are Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben chugging along as corporate mascots in 2019? AJ is a straight-up minstrel show character -- there was a @uvapress book about this subject.
Are those brands so shaky that they'd fade without these characters fronting their packages?
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Replying to @MoustacheClubUS @uvapress
I was honestly just contemplating this very thing
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"Aunt Jemima's ready-mixed products offered middle-class housewives the next best thing to a black servant: a "slave in a box" that conjured up romantic images of not only the food but also the social hierarchy of the plantation South."
8:04 PM - 2 Apr 2019
from Pittsburgh, PA
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