Telling Memories Among Southern Women
Subtitle: Domestic Workers and Their Employers in the Segregated South
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: May 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780807127995
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Black studies; Multicultural studies; Women's studies; Work & labour; 20th century; Women's Studies - General; Oral History; Women In The U.S.; Social Science; Sociology; History: American; Central Southern states; Southeastern & South Atlantic states; History; General
Description: "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"--The publisher.