# Slave in a Box
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{{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](/source/United_States)
| genre = Non-fiction
| publisher = [University of Virginia Press](/source/University_of_Virginia_Press)
| pub_date = 1998
| subject = [Aunt Jemima](/source/Aunt_Jemima)
}}
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'''''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](/source/University_of_Virginia_Press). It covers [Aunt Jemima](/source/Aunt_Jemima).
According to ''[Publishers Weekly](/source/Publishers_Weekly)'', the book focuses more on how marketing used desires from [White Americans](/source/White_Americans) to sell products and less on a history of Aunt Jemima.[{{cite magazine|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780813917825|title=Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima|magazine=[Publishers Weekly](/source/Publishers_Weekly)|volume=245|issue=8|page=59|access-date=2025-06-03}}] Manring stated that Aunt Jemima was used a form of [nostalgia](/source/nostalgia) for housewives who were unable to have servants but wanted them.[{{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](/source/News_%26_Notes)|publisher=[National Public Radio](/source/National_Public_Radio)|date=2007-01-02|access-date=2025-06-03}}]
Andrea Higbie, in ''[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)'', stated that the book shows how Aunt Jemima is "a damaging racial image."[{{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](/source/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]]
==Background==
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Manring was an [independent scholar](/source/independent_scholar). He resided in [Columbia, Missouri](/source/Columbia%2C_Missouri) when the book was released.[
==Reception==
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Myrtle Gonza Glascoe of [Gettysburg College](/source/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.][Glascoe, p. 504.]
==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](/source/History_of_Education_Quarterly)|year=1999|volume=39|issue=4|pages=503–504|doi=10.2307/369945 |jstor=369945 |url-access=subscription}}
===Notes===
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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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Labour_(journal))|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](/source/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](/source/The_Historian_(journal))|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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Southern_Cultures)|date=September 1995|volume=2|issue=1|pages=19–44|doi=10.1353/scu.1995.0059 |via=[Project MUSE](/source/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](/source/University_of_Virginia_Press)
* ''[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780813918112 Slave in a Box]'' - [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive)
Category:University of Virginia Press books
Category:1998 non-fiction books
Category:Aunt Jemima
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