The maid narratives : black domestics and white families in the Jim Crow south /
The Maid Narratives shares the memories of black domestic workers and the white families they served, uncovering the often intimate relationships between maid and mistress. Based on interviews with over fifty people-both white and black-these stories deliver a personal and powerful message about res...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
LSU Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Southern literary studies.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | The Maid Narratives shares the memories of black domestic workers and the white families they served, uncovering the often intimate relationships between maid and mistress. Based on interviews with over fifty people-both white and black-these stories deliver a personal and powerful message about resilience and resistance in the face of oppression in the Jim Crow South. The housekeepers, caretakers, sharecroppers, and cooks who share their experiences in The Maid Narratives ultimately moved away during the Great Migration. |
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| Item Description: | Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 298 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807149690 0807149691 9780807149683 0807149683 9780807149706 0807149705 9780807149713 0807149713 |
