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• Quaker announces a recall on Aunt Jemima products

  - 2008-03-07

  The Quaker Oats Co. said this week that some Aunt Jemima Pancake & Waffle Mix products have been recalled, due to possible salmonella contamination. The Original, Original Complete and Buttermilk Complete products were shipped to 17 states, including Utah. The company said that about 2 percent of the...

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• Limited Number of Aunt Jemima Pancake & Waffle Mix Products Recalled for Possible Health Risk

  - 2008-03-04

  To: FOOD EDITORS Contact: Jamie Stein of The Quaker Oats Co., +1-312-821-2017, jamie_stein@quakeroats.com CHICAGO, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Quaker Oats Co. announced the products in the recall are a small quantity of Aunt Jemima Pancake & Waffle Mix: Original, Original Complete and Buttermilk Complete, which may have potential...

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• Aunt Jemima Sticks It to Kids.(Aurora Foods Inc.)(Brief Article)

  - 2001-02-01

  Some categories are complex places where subtle consumer wants and needs intersect with varied and numerous product offerings, all overlaid by a targeted combination of advertising and promotion and supported in the store with extensive category management efforts. Others can be summed...

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• Aunt Jemima

  - 2001-01-01

  Aunt Jemima, trademark, stereotype, cultural icon to many whites, and racist caricature to many African Americans. For Chris Rutt and Charles Underwood, Aunt Jemima was the perfect symbol for their experiment with the first packaged pancake mix. These white entrepreneurs attended a...

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• Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima.(Review) (book review) (book review)

  - 2000-01-01

  Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima. By M. M. Manring. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1998. Pp. ix, 183. $47.50.) Slave in a Box begins with a provocative title that sets the tone for an investigation of the...

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• Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima

  - 1999-12-22

  Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima, by M. M. Manring. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998. 210 pp. $14.95 paper. THE ERA OF THE MINSTREL SHOW MIGHT BE GONE but blackface continues to pop its burnt-cork head into the popular consciousness. From 1998's New York...

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• Aunt Jemima Isn't Keeping Up with the Energizer Bunny: Stereotyping of Animated Spokes-characters in Advertising - Statistical Data Included

  - 1999-06-01

  While there is an abundance of research on advertising spokes-characters - animated characters used to endorse a product or brand - and gender stereotyping in advertising, the two topics have not been examined in relation to each other. The purpose of this project is to look at gender stereotyping in...

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• Van de Kamp's, Quaker Oats ink deal for select Celeste, Aunt Jemima products

  - 1996-06-03

  CHICAGO--Van de Kamp's Inc., a privately held producer of branded frozen seafood, reached an agreement with The Quaker Oats Co. to acquire Quaker's Aunt Jemima frozen breakfast products and Celeste frozen pizza products businesses.Terms were not disclosed.Under the terms of the pact, Van de Kamp's will buy the Celeste trademark...

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• African-American History and Culture -- Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Rastus: Blacks in Advertising, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow by Marilyn Kern-Foxworth

  - 1995-02-01

  Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Rastus: Blacks in Advertising Yesterday, Today and Tomorrowby Marilyn Kern-FoxworthGreenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 88 Post Road West P.O. Box 5007 Westport, CT 06881-5007256 pages--$18.95 softcoverKern-Foxworth discusses stereotypical portrayals or African Americans in advertising, from the slave era to the present.She analyzes characters such as Uncle...

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• Mammy's makeover. (Aunt Jemima changes her image) (Business)

  - 1989-05-06

  Mammy's makeover ONE of America's marketing icons is about to be smartened up. In July Aunt Jemima, the cheerful black cook on a million packets of pancake mix, is swapping her red bandana for pearl earrings. Now 100 years old, Aunt Jemima's grinning face...

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