Not Your Mother's Mammy: The Black Domestic Worker in Transatlantic Women's Media
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Not Your Mother's Mammy examines how black artists of the African diaspora, many of them former domestics, reconstruct the black female subjectivities of domestics in fiction, film, and visual and performance art. In doing so, they undermine one-dimensional images of black domestics as victims lacking voice and agency and prove domestic workers are more than the aprons they wear. An analysis of selected media by Alice Childress, Nandi Keyi,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1978808577
ISBN13:9781978808577
Release Date:April 2021
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Length:252 Pages
Weight:0.66 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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