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Aunt Jemima
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a black woman who seeks approval from white people by obsequious behaviour US
Ironically, singer/actor Ethel Ernestine Harper, who portrayed Aunt Jemima in pancake commercials from 1948 until 1966, was by all accounts anything but the stereotypical subservient black woman.- What I [Adam Clayton Powell] cannot abide are the black “Aunt Jemimas” who snuggle up to the white power structure for approbation by denouncing “black power” and telling Mr. Charlie what he wants to hear. — San Francisco Examiner, 18 August 1966
- Nothing but Aunt Jemimas and Uncle Toms doing the white man’s bidding. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 8, 28 October 1967
- You have got to eat lunch anyway, you know, just like aunt Jemima said. — George V. Higgins, Penance for Jerry Kennedy, p. 170, 1985
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