Mammies, Matriarchs and Controlling Images.

"The Color Purple" would be the best example of Collins' article. Celie would be a combination of a mammy and matriarch according to Collins. Although Celia isn't in a white household she begins as a mammy. She plays a faithful, obedient, and domestic housewife. Her father married her off at the very young age. Albert her husband, who is two times older than Celie and has four children, beats her into submission. She grow to …

…of white woman's hairstyle. She has a fair skin tone that gives her an attraction that neither Celie or Sorfia has. She would be a threat to the average white women if she was ever place in a white household as a mammy. "The Color Purple" gives an insight of the "Mammies, Matriarch, and Other Controlling Images" with the three of the four characteristics that an African American women would play in a cinematic production.