Not Your Mother's Mammy: The Black Domestic Worker in Transatlantic Women's Media

by Tracey L Walters and Tracey L. Walters

Book Overview

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