{{Short description|1998 book by Maurice M. Manring}}{{Infobox book | image = File:Slave_in_a_Box.png | caption = Title page for ''Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima'' (1998) | author = Maurice M. Manring | language = English | country = United States | genre = Non-fiction | publisher = University of Virginia Press | pub_date = 1998 | subject = Aunt Jemima }} {{italictitle}} '''''Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima''''' is a 1998 non-fiction book by Maurice M. Manring, published by University of Virginia Press. It covers Aunt Jemima.
According to ''Publishers Weekly'', the book focuses more on how marketing used desires from White Americans to sell products and less on a history of Aunt Jemima.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780813917825|title=Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima|magazine=Publishers Weekly|volume=245|issue=8|page=59|access-date=2025-06-03}}</ref> Manring stated that Aunt Jemima was used a form of nostalgia for housewives who were unable to have servants but wanted them.<ref>{{cite news|last=Chideya|first=Farai|url=https://www.npr.org/2007/01/02/6709995/revisiting-aunt-jemima-slave-in-a-box|title=Revisiting Aunt Jemima: 'Slave in a Box'|work=News & Notes|publisher=National Public Radio|date=2007-01-02|access-date=2025-06-03}}</ref>
Andrea Higbie, in ''The New York Times'', stated that the book shows how Aunt Jemima is "a damaging racial image."<ref name=Higbie>{{cite news|last=Higbie|first=Andrea|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/25/books/books-in-brief-university-presses-nonfiction-392103.html|title=Books in Brief: University Presses Nonfiction|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1998-10-25|access-date=2025-06-03}} - [https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/25/bib/981025.rv112711.html Old view of the page]</ref>
==Background== {{expand section|date=June 2025}} Manring was an independent scholar. He resided in Columbia, Missouri when the book was released.<ref name=Higbie/>
==Reception== {{expand section|date=June 2025}} Myrtle Gonza Glascoe of Gettysburg College wrote that the work is "a must read" for people wishing to explore how capitalist countries have concepts about class, gender, and race.<ref>Glascoe, p. 504.</ref>
==References== * {{cite journal|last=Glascoe|first=Myrtle Gonza|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/history-of-education-quarterly/article/abs/m-m-manring-slave-in-a-box-the-strange-career-of-aunt-jemima-the-american-south-series-charlottesville-university-press-of-virginia-1998-219pp-paper-1495/8B96DC5226E68DD2E4B584C3EDF65DDD|title=Manring M. M. Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima. (The American South Series). Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. 219pp. Paper $14.95|journal=History of Education Quarterly|year=1999|volume=39|issue=4|pages=503–504|doi=10.2307/369945 |jstor=369945 |url-access=subscription}}
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==Further reading== * {{cite journal|last=Diller|first=Frank|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26476947|title="Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima", by M. M. Manring (Book Review)|journal=The Mississippi Quarterly|year=1999|volume=53|issue=1|page=161|jstor=26476947}} * {{cite journal|last=Goings|first=Kenneth W|title=MANRING, "Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima" (Book Review)|journal=The Journal of Southern History|year=1999|volume=65|issue=3|page=656|doi=10.2307/2588178 |jstor=2588178 }} * {{cite journal|last=Levenstein|first=Harvey|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/218787177|title=M.M. Manring, Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima|journal=Labour|year=2000|volume=45|issue=45|page=321|id={{ProQuest|218787177}} }} * {{cite journal|last=Rhodes|first=Chip|url=https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/87/3/1063/870244|title=Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima|journal=The Journal of American History|year=2000|volume=87|issue=3|pages=1063–1064|doi=10.2307/2675362 |jstor=2675362 |url-access=subscription}} * {{cite journal|last=Salem|first=Dorothy C.|title=M. M. Manring. "Slave in a Box" (Book Review)|journal=The Historian|year=2000|volume=62|issue=2|page=416}} * {{cite journal|last=Schmid|first=Oona|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40583937|title=MANRING, "Slave in a Box" (Book Review)|journal=The Georgia Historical Quarterly|year=1998|volume=82|issue=4|page=921|jstor=40583937}} * {{cite journal|last=Smith|first=Gerald L.|title=Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima . By M. M. Manring (Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1998) 210 pp. $47.50 cloth $14.95 paper|journal=The Journal of Interdisciplinary History|date=October 1999|volume=30|issue=2|pages=350–352|doi=10.1162/jinh.1999.30.2.350 }} * {{cite journal|last=Thomas|first=Sabrina Lynette|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1525/tran.2001.10.1.58|title=Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima|journal=Transforming Anthropology|year=2001|volume=10|issue=1|pages=58–59|doi=10.1525/tran.2001.10.1.58|url-access=subscription}} - [https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/slave-box-strange-career-aunt-jemima/docview/205566897/se-2 Available at] ProQuest * {{cite journal|last=Weems|first=Robert E.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-history-review/article/abs/slave-in-a-box-the-strange-career-of-aunt-jemima-bym-m-manring-charlottesville-university-of-virginia-press-1998-xi-210-pp-bibliography-and-index-cloth-4750-isbn-0813917824-paper-1495-isbn-0813918111/EE56C7232E3EDA8F0B00C0C737EBB07F|title=Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima. By Manring M. M. · Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998. xi + 210 pp. Bibliography and index. Cloth, $47.50. ISBN 0813917824; paper, $14.95. ISBN 0813918111|journal=Business History Review|year=1999|volume=73|issue=2|pages=298–300|doi=10.2307/3116253 |jstor=3116253 |url-access=subscription}} - [https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/m-manring-slave-box-strange-career-aunt-jemima/docview/1296294079/se-2 Available at] ProQuest
; Predecessor article: * {{cite journal|last=Manring|first=Maurice M.|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/423704/summary|title=Aunt Jemima Explained: The Old South, the Absent Mistress, and the Slave in a Box|journal=Southern Cultures|date=September 1995|volume=2|issue=1|pages=19–44|doi=10.1353/scu.1995.0059 |via=Project MUSE|jstor=26235388|url-access=subscription}} - [https://www.southerncultures.org/article/aunt-jemima-explained-old-south-absent-mistress-slave-box/ Abstract]
==External links== * ''[https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2502/ Slave in a Box]'' - University of Virginia Press * ''[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780813918112 Slave in a Box]'' - Internet Archive Category:University of Virginia Press books Category:1998 non-fiction books Category:Aunt Jemima