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Telling Memories Among Southern Women
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Domestic Workers and Their Employers in the Segregated South
By
Susan Tucker
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Free shipping Australia wide Ships from USA supplier | Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback, 296 pages, New edition Edition | | Other Information: | 16 halftones | | Published In: | United States, 01 May 2002 |
In Telling Memories Among Southern Women, Susan Tucker presents a revealing collection of oral-history narratives that explore the complex, sometimes enigmatic bond between black female domestic workers and their white employers from the turn of the twentieth century to the civil rights revolution of the 1960s. Based on interviews with forty-two women of both races from the Deep South, these narratives express the full range of human emotions and successfully convey the ties that united -- and the tensions and conflicts that separated -- these two mutually dependent groups of women. |
ReviewsThis collection of oral history narratives explores the attitudes and experiences of black women who worked as domestics in the segregated South and their white women employers. Although the narratives cover 1900 to the beginning of the Civil Rights era, the interviews were conducted in the 1980s. The memories, therefore, are recounted in light of the changes wrought by the intervening years. Tucker analyzes the complex social patterns of the times, the women's lifestyles, and the effect of selective memory on their stories. A fascinating study of a hitherto neglected area of social history. Susan B. Hagloch, Tuscarawas Cty. P.L., New Philadelphia, Ohio
| Publisher: | Louisiana State University Press | | ISBN: | 080712799X |
| EAN: | 9780807127995 | | Dimensions: | 22.0 x 15.0 x 2.0 centimeters (0.48 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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