Editing Tom and Jerry (section)

===The Housekeeper ===
{{main|Mammy Two Shoes}}

The housekeeper, usually seen from the torso down,  is a heavy-set, middle-aged black woman who often has to deal with the mayhem generated by the lead characters. Voiced by character actress [[Lillian Randolph]], she is often seen as the owner of Tom, and perhaps the homeowner as well. Her face was only shown once, very briefly, in ''[[Saturday Evening Puss]]''. Her appearances have often been edited out, dubbed, or re-animated as a slim white woman in later television showings, since her character is a [[mammy archetype]] that had been protested as [[racist]] by the [[NAACP]] and other civil rights groups since the 1940s.<ref name=race/><ref name="LehmanBook">{{Cite book |last=Lehman |first=Christopher P. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/794701592 |title=The Colored cartoon : Black representation in American animated short films, 1907-1954 |date=2007 |publisher=University of Massachusetts Press |isbn=978-1-61376-119-9 |location=Amherst |pages=97–99 |oclc=794701592}}</ref> In a 1975 article in Film Comment she was referred to as "Mammy Two Shoes," a moniker that has been inaccurately attributed to the character ever since, The name "Mammy Two-Shoes" was on the Disney model sheets for a character in a Silly Symphony cartoon, though the name was never spoken in the cartoon. A similar housekeeper then appeared in MGM Bokso cartoons by Harman and Ising, also without a name. At no time, ever, was the name used in any Tom and Jerry cartoon, The author of the 1975 article later apologized, but too much time had established the incorrect information, including on the DVD release DVD releases of the cartoons, in which the script read by [[Whoopi Goldberg]] on the ''[[Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection|Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection: Vol. 2]]'' DVD set, while explaining the importance of African-American representation in the cartoon series, however stereotyped, mentions the incorrect name numerous times.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Adams |first=T. R. |title=Tom and Jerry: fifty years of cat and mouse |date=1991 |publisher=Pyramid Books |isbn=978-1-85510-086-2 |location=London}}</ref>