When the woman turns toward the camera, Cecilie shocked: that is not her family’s au pair.
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Isadora Wandermurem,
Time,
16 May 2025
Widowed with their two children, Jack Corbett Lynch and Sarah Corbett Lynch, the Irish businessman hired an American au pair named Molly Martens in 2008 to help him with childcare.
The mammy stereotype, which desexualized both dark skinned enslaved and free women (who were often in domestic roles), made muting Black beauty the norm.
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Brooklyn White,
Essence,
30 Nov. 2022
Toxic archetypes of Black womanhood—the mammy, the Black matriarch, the jezebel (or the Scraggle Daggle, in SYSBM parlance), and the welfare mother—are all alive and well in the Black Manosphere.
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