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Micki McElya

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  • An eight photo collage of pictures showing the proper way for women to smile

    Just Wear Your Smile

    Few who encounter Positive Psychology via self-help books and therapy know that its gender politics valorize the nuclear family and heterosexual monogamy.
    by Micki McElya via Boston Review on September 26, 2022
  • The Echoes of America's 'Faithful Slave' Trope in Lola's Story

    How Alex Tizon’s essay echoes a trope with deep roots in American history
    by Micki McElya via The Atlantic
    This publication restricts nonsubscriber access to some or all of its articles.
    on May 31, 2017

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Film still of Hattie McDaniel as Mammy in "Gone with the Wind."

The Mammy Washington Almost Had

In 1923, the U.S. Senate approved a new monument in D.C. "in memory of the faithful slave mammies of the South."
by Tony Horwitz via The Atlantic
This publication restricts nonsubscriber access to some or all of its articles.
on May 31, 2013
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