Letters to Mammy

a substack collaboration with Bethany Nicole

Today’s post was made in collaboration with the brilliant

Bethany Nicole

. After realizing we both wrote about not wanting to become a Mammy, we decided to write letters to the actors who normalized the stereotype. My letter is to the actress Hattie McDaniel. She was in more than 300 movies, was the first Black woman who won an Academy award, and played Mammy in Gone …