Not Your Mother's Mammy
| Author | : Tracey L Walters |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2021-04-16 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781978808577 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1978808577 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (577 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Not Your Mother's Mammy by : Tracey L Walters
Download or read book Not Your Mother's Mammy written by Tracey L Walters and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not Your Mother's Mammy examines how black artists, mostly women of the diaspora, many of them former domestics, reconstruct the black female subjectivities of domestics in black media. In doing so, they undermine and defamiliarize the reductive, one-dimensional images of black domestics as perpetual victims lacking voice and agency. In line with international movements like #MeToo and #timesup, the women in these stories demand to be heard.
