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The maid narratives : black domestic and white families in the Jim Crow South

Van Wormer, Katherine S. (Author). Jackson, David W. 1972- (Added Author). Sudduth, Charletta 1968- (Added Author).

Summary: "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"--Page [2] of jacket.

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ISBN: 9780807149683
ISBN: 0807149683
Physical Description: print
xviii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2012]
Copyright: ©2012

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. I. The background. Introduction -- History and context -- The women of the Great Migration -- pt. II. The maid narratives. In their own words: They didn't want no Negroes to have no freedom / Elra Johnson ; I worked in the home of William Faulkner / Pearline Sisk Jones ; Man didn't want me to wash my hands in the wash pan / Vinella Byrd ; My mother named me after her doll / Mamie Johnson ; I worked for white families as soon as I was old enough to walk / Annie Victoria Johnson ; I wish to God I could tell you more, but it's too painful / Irene Williams ; I came from a little nobody to somebody / Odessa Roberts ; She's twelve years old : call her Miss Nancy / Ruthie O'Neal ; You never went in the front door / Annie Pearl Stevenson ; It's just the way we lived down South : nobody bothered anybody / Jimmie Lane ; I always thought that my brother might have been kin to them [the white family] / Melvina Scott ; [My sister] told me, 'I would not only clean the bathroom but I'd take a bath in the bathtub / Hazel Rankins ; I always wanted to be a teacher / Gloria Kirkland Holmes -- The maid narrative themes.