Racism In The Kitchen
During the Jim Crow period a typical American kitchen had many products with images that portrayed blacks in negative ways; these included packaging for cereal, syrup, pancake mix, and detergent; salt and pepper shakers; string holders; cookbooks; hand towels; placemats; grocery list reminders; and, wall hangings. Any object found in a kitchen could be-and often was-transformed into anti-black propaganda.
This video shows some examples of kitchen and Mammy items in the Jim Crow Museum collection.
Short'nin' Bread Lyrics from 1950 cartoon "Short'nin' Bread" by National Telefilm Association, Inc.
Chorus:
Mammy’s little baby loves short’-nin’, short’-nin’
Mammy little baby loves short’-nin bread
Mammy’s little baby loves short’-nin’, short’-nin’
Mammy little baby loves short’-nin bread
feed dem chillum some shortnin
Two lit-tle chil-lun lyin’ in bed
One of ‘em sick an’ de odder mos’ dead
Call for de docter an’ de doc-torr said
“Feed dem chillun on short’-nin’ bread
Goin to da kitchen an’ put on da led
Put on da skillet for short ‘nin bread
Short ‘nin bread an’ bake it thin
Al-ways make dem chil-lun grin
Chorus [2x]
Mossin ‘round da kitchen lak a bus-y bee
Da busi-est mammy you ever did see
Gotta hurry up wid da short ‘nin bread
Gotta git dem chillun right out-ta bed
Chorus [2x]
“How ‘bout dat short-nin bread
When I gonna git that short’-nin’ bread”
Cried a lit-tle baby a-lyin’ in bed
His eyes were shut like he ben dead
Chorus [2x]
De odder little fel-la sick in de bed
When he hear tell of short’-nin’ bread
Popped up well, he dance and sing
He al-most cut da pi-geon wing
Mammy’s little baby loves short’-nin’, short’-nin’
Mammy little baby loves short’-nin bread
Mammy’s little baby loves short’-nin’, short’-nin’
Mammy little baby loves short’-nin bread
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