The phrase "a mammy" is correct and can be used in written English, though it may carry cultural connotations.
It can be used in contexts discussing maternal figures, particularly in historical or cultural discussions.
Example: "In the story, the character was often referred to as a mammy, embodying the nurturing role within the family."
Alternatives: "a mother figure" or "a maternal figure".
In the meantime, she has eaten enough to acquire the large, comfy physicality of a mammy.
Under his spell, she becomes maternal, loving, patient — a Mammy of the boardroom and Monty's "little girl".
When criticized for often playing a mammy on film, Ms. McDaniel famously said she would rather play a maid in the movies than be one.
"That ties into a historical representation of black women as being either a Mammy character or someone like Halle Berry, who is represented as a sexual object".
She's twenty or so years into her career, and things haven't got much better than they were when she started out: she's still playing somebody's idea of a mammy.
"I was supposed to be a mammy and I sat down, clapping". The current spate of Denishawn revivals makes clear why dancers like Miss Graham, intent on expressing the complexities of life around her, were impelled to leave.
The centerpiece of "A Subtlety," her new sculptural installation in the old Domino Sugar Factory, in Williamsburg, is a mammy-as-sphinx, rising more than thirty-five feet.
The space is currently home to an exhibition of Kara Walker's monumental installation "A Subtlety," a thirty-five-foot tall, seventy-five-foot-long sculpture that Hilton Als described as "a mammy-as-sphinx made out of bleached sugar".
Measuring approximately seventy-five and a half feet long and thirty-five and a half feet high, the sculpture is white — a mammy-as-sphinx made out of bleached sugar, which is a metaphor and reality.
Her 30-ton glistening, sugar-coated sphinx - fronted by a Mammy-face worthy of an Aunt Jemima bottle - pointedly reminded us all about the brutal underpinnings of the sugar cane trade.
Bannerman drew some doozies for the original incarnation, and subsequent illustrations were even worse, with a mammy-type mother and lazy father, though the father's only part in the story involves him coming back from work, so obviously the original story wasn't racist enough for some of the illustrators.
