Aunt Jemima is the commercialized embodiment of the American Mammy icon. Michelle Matlock's The Mammy Project travels from the Minstrel show era of Zip Coon and Jim Crow through the great silver screen mammies played by Butterfly McQueen and Hattie McDaniels, to the present day where Mammy has a perm, a production company, and maybe her very own book club. Matlock digs deep into her own experience, American history, and a wickedly twisted imagination to delivery a personal, political, and exhilarating expose.