... the article "Male Mammies: A Social-Comparison Perspective on How Exaggeratedly Overweight Media Portrayals of Madea, Rasputia, and Big Momma Affect How Black Woman Feel About Themselves," authors Gina Masullo Chen, Sherri Williams, Nicole Hendrickson, and Li Chen, all professors at Syracuse University, state that "The Mammy is usually ... all the attention they needed and then some. Mammies were required to love the master's children if they wanted to survive. In Robinson's article, he quotes Randall's book again, "She who ain't free not to love, ain't free to love" (66). This is what ...

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