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The Liberation of Aunt Jemima

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Her The Liberation of Aunt Jemima (1972), for example, is a “mammy” doll—the caricature of a desexualized complacent enslaved woman—placed in front of the eponymous pancake syrup labels; she carries a broom in one hand and a shotgun in the other. Saar also made works that…
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