Was the black woman in the Tom & Jerry cartoons the owner of the house or the maid?

Depends on a persons way of thinking.. I guess...

ive always said owner myself...she refers to it as Her house if i remember right...

Yeah I thought so to, I was really high the other day and was watching a tom and jerry marathon and I thought about American culture at the time these Oscar winning cartoons were made, and the concept of a single black woman owning her own home was quite a positve thing, a credit to the cartoon makers thinking.

She sported a NICE ghetto booty though!!! YUMMY

I Know Right?.. If i was the Mister... Im Knockin Every Night...

she was the maid. the owners were on vacation.

They were some of the damn most funny cartoons ever (except for the Droopy cartoons).

Tex Avery was a comic genius!

Yup. The only reason she referred to it as "her" house was because she felt responsible for it, after all she was the maid.

It was her house dammit!!! A black woman aint going to run back to the house that fast because loud music is being played in massa's house! Screw Massa!!! She don't want no free loaders running up her gas n' electric...

the maid.

because the moment of history.

I thought one Droopy cartoon was extremely funny, the one where he's a sheepherder and Winchester Wolf is a cattle rancher, and they have a shooting contest:

Who cares? Do you think black people int he 60's lived in dirt houses or something? Why shouldn't it be her house?

I've actually had this conversation with my brother.

The portrayal of the black woman wasn't a postivie single black female home owner...trust me on that much.

It was more like, the house 'mammie'

Recall the scene where Jerry walks in and she gets up on the chair and shrieks for Tom to come 'git dis her mouse' or something to that effect

You might miss it if you don't look quick.....but....

Ass she jumps up on the chair.....out from under her dress falls 2 items.
A straight handled razor and a jug of moonshine.

We were talking about how old cartoons have very NON pc (by today's standards) subject matter in them, and how they'd never get made today.

She was the maid, the white woman wearing the high heels was the owner, you rarely saw the guy except in an easy chair with a pipe.

Mammy Two Shoes
Main article: Mammy Two Shoes
From the beginning, Tom also has to deal with Mammy Two Shoes (voiced by Lillian Randolph), an African-American domestic housemaid based on Hattie McDaniel. In the earliest shorts, Mammy is depicted as the maid taking care of the often opulent home in which Tom and Jerry reside. Later Tom and Jerry shorts are set in what appears to be Mammy's own house. Her face is never seen (with the exception of 1950's Saturday Evening Puss, in which her face is very briefly seen as she runs towards the camera), and she usually wallops the cat with a broom when he misbehaves. When Mammy was not present, other humans would sometimes be seen, usually from the neck down as well. Mammy would appear in many cartoons until 1952's Push-Button Kitty; Mammy's character was retired after that year following McDaniel's death. Later cartoons would instead show Tom and Jerry living with a 1950s suburban couple. Soon after, virtually all humans in the series had visible faces.

George and Joan
George and Joan are an average middle class white couple, who first debuted on the 1954 episode Pet Peeve. They are the new owners of Tom and Spike, but Tom likes to keep Joan company and Spike likes to keep George company. Joan is George's wife and is often seen either cooking in the kitchen, or sitting on her armchair knitting or sewing a dress with Tom keeping her company. George on the other hand is Joan's husband, he hates the monthly bills and complains that they're too expensive. But when he's not complaining about the bills, he is sitting on his armchair or on the sofa reading the newspaper wearing his smart purple or grey suit and Spike keeping him company. Both George and Joan are very kind and polite towards each other and Tom and Spike. In Pet Peeve, George and Joan decided that they keep Jerry as a pet because he is easy to look after and doesn't eat too much and tell Tom and Spike to leave. However, in later episodes with George and Joan, Tom and Spike still happily live with them and Jerry is not known by the couple and he is not a pet anymore.

um yeah he was but he didn't make any of the Tom and Jerry cartoons, he did however make many Droopy ones.