Saar has stated, that "the reasoning behind this decision is to empower black women and not let the narrative of a white person determine how a black women should view herself". I used the derogatory image to empower the black woman by making her a revolutionary, like she was rebelling against her past enslavement. Behnken and Gregory D. Authors Brian D. Smithers examine the popular media from the late 19th century through the 20th century to the early 21st century.
This broad coverage enables readers to see how depictions of people of color, such as Aunt Jemima, have been consistently stereotyped back to the s and to grasp how those depictions have changed over time. It soon became both Saar's most iconic piece and a symbols of black liberation and power and radical feminist art. When it was included in the exhibition WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in , the activist and academic Angela Davis credited it as the work that launched the black women's movement.
Now in the collection at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima continues to serve as a warrior to combat bigotry and racism and inspire and ignite the revolutionary spirit. As the critic James Cristen Steward stated in Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Monument , the work addresses "two representations of black women, how stereotypes portray them, defeminizing and desexualizing them and reality.
Saar's intention for having the stereotype of the mammy holding a rifle to symbolize that black women are strong and can endure anything, a representation of a warrior. The Liberation of Aunt Jemima is an assemblage made out of everyday objects Saar collected over the years. Its primary subject is the mammy, a stereotypical and derogatory depiction of a Black domestic worker. Saar created this work by using artifacts featuring several mammies: a plastic figurine, a postcard, and advertisements for Aunt Jemima pancakes.
The plastic mammy holds two guns. The postcard showing another mammy is tucked behind a Black Power fist. The Aunt Jemima portrait is repeated over and over in the background, staring directly at the viewer. The mammy is no longer a foolish woman or a victim. She is a gun-carrying self-emancipator.
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At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Resource Empowerment through Art. Resource Teaching Materials Suggested Activities. Betye Saar was a prominent member of the Black Arts Movement. In Liberation of Aunt Jemima: Cocktail Saar transforms a Gallo wine jug, a s marker of middle-class sophistication, into a tool for Black liberation. For Sacred Symbols fifteen years later she transfigures the detritus one might find in the junk drawer of any home into a composition with spiritual overtones.
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Fifty years later she has finally been liberated herself. And, yet more work still needs to be done. That piece consists of 56 squares of juxtaposed triangles of various quilts alongside images of Black women, Black girls, Black men, white men and women, and nine panels of text that retell and reimagine the story of Aunt Jemima.
The idea of a painted quilt was upper most in my mind. I was tired of hearing black people speak negatively about the image of Aunt Jemima. I knew they were referring to a big black woman and I took it personally.
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