The Maid Narratives: Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South (Southern Literary Studies), by Katherine van Van Wormer, David W. Jackson III, Charletta Sudduth
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The Maid Narratives 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.The housekeepers, caretakers, sharecroppers, and cooks who share their experiences in The Maid Narratives ultimately moved away during the Great Migration. Their perspectives as servants who left for better opportunities outside of the South offer an original telling of physical and psychological survival in a racially oppressive caste system: Vinella Byrd, for instance, from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, recalls how a farmer she worked for would not allow her to clean her hands in the family's wash pan. These narratives are complemented by the voices of white women, such as Flora Templeton Stuart, from New Orleans, who remembers her maid fondly but realizes that she knew little about her life. Like Stuart, many of the white narrators remain troubled by the racial norms of the time. Viewed as a whole, the book presents varied, rich, and detailed accounts, often tragic, and sometimes humorous. The Maid Narratives reveals, across racial lines, shared hardships, strong emotional ties, and inspiring strength.
The Maid Narratives: Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South (Southern Literary Studies), by Katherine van Van Wormer, David W. Jackson III, Charletta Sudduth- Amazon Sales Rank: #3598338 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-15
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 12.00" h x 1.00" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
Review ''This collection of oral history narratives fills a significant gap in U.S. social history. The book tells the story of those women who remember both segregation and domestic work in the South and took an active part in their migration to the Midwest. No person attempting to understand the popularity of books such as Gone with the Wind and The Help should be without it.'' --Susan Tucker, author of Telling Memories Among Southern WomenLittle else grabs a human's attention like a first-person narrative: the recollection of someone who can say, "I was there. I saw it, tasted it, touched it felt it." The Maid Narratives: Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South gathers a group of such stories to extend the discussion about the nature of domestic work in the South in the twentieth century. The volume is composed of excerpts of oral history interview with thirteen African American women who grew up and worked as domestic servants in the South and then moved to Iowa; interviews with an essays written by fifteen white women and one white man from various places int the South, mostly New Orleans, whose families employed domestic servants; and prefatory, analytical, and summary essays by the editors. --The Journal of Southern HistoryRegardless of our own racial background, this volume opens our eyes to the daily lives of thousands of African American women absent from history books. Working as domestics in the North and South, women were sometimes treated with regard and even loved by their employers, but often barely respected as human beings...The Maid Narratives fills a great historical void. As the first sentence of the introduction says, it is 'intended to take its readers on a journey back in time to a place that, to many, will be a foreign country. We will travel there with the help of our storytellers.' --Friends Journal
About the Author Katherine van Wormer, who grew up in New Orleans, is a sociologist and professor of social work at the University of Northern Iowa. She is the author or coauthor of sixteen books, including Death by Domestic Violence; Human Behavior and the Social Environment; Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice; and Addiction Treatment: A Strengths Perspective.David W. Jackson III is assistant professor in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Metropolitan State College of Denver. He is co-producer of the oral video history project African-American Voices of the Cedar Valley. In 2006, he received the Trio Achiever of the Year award for the State of Iowa.Charletta Sudduth is an early-childhood consultant for the Waterloo Community School District. She earned a master's in social work and a doctorate in education, curriculum, and instruction from the University of Northern Iowa.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Voices of the women themselves By M. E. (Murphy) Waggoner This book has a mix of historical background, interviews with women who served as domestics in Mississippi, Arkansas and the Midwest, and interviews with women who lived in households that had African American domestics in Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana. The authors, three academics at various points in their careers, analyzed the interviews for themes. The remembrances by the domestics and those whom they worked for are starkly different. The young women and men who were partly raised by domestics expressed love for them, but this love was not always reciprocated, and what the young children interpreted as the acts of a caring mother figure were sometimes just part of the job for some of the domestics.One of the points of the introduction to "Maid Narratives" is that it is still the custom to want to hire someone to work in your home who has difficulty speaking your language and the theory behind that is that it is easier to believe that someone who cannot fully communicate with you is of lesser intelligence. This pattern exists in countries other than our own and in countries where the principle language is other than English. Often the people who do housework now are immigrants who are not able to use their expertise from the home country here in the U.S. So, it turns out that some day laborers are well educated, sometimes with college or graduate degrees, but are doing the only work they are able to get. An example is a custodian who worked at our college who had been a math teacher in Hungary. She would stay late at work to sit outside one of our classrooms to watch the math lectures.A theme of the interviews was the maternalism that the domestics were treated with - often paying with goods instead of money, their employers trying to take care of them, and sending food and discarded household goods home with the domestics. I can understand how this empowered the employers, who in reality were often dependent on their employees. Many of the employers said that their day laborers was "a part of the family" but clearly the domestics and other employees were not treated the same as the members of the family, having to eat separately, using a different set of dishware than that used by the family to avoid spreading of "Negro germs" and having to use separate toilet facilities, if toilet facilities were provided at all.Of course, the book The help was mentioned several times in this nonfiction account of women of the same era, but this book was both more well-balanced by talking to women of different ages and including those that had moved to Iowa in the Great Migration. It was also more complete by describing the range of experiences of women on both sides of the power structure and a follow up of what happened to them later in life, especially with regard to changing attitudes and the de jure, and given enough time the de facto, revocation of the Jim Crow laws. A good companion piece is the National Parks Service site on Jim Crow laws.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Tear jerking & moving!!! By Michelle E. These narratives are unforgettable, both the stories told by the remarkable women of Iowa who survived living under wretched conditions in the South & yet they tell their stories without bitterness and even with humor. The stories of the white women who so loved the black women who cared for them even as they were forced to neglect their own families.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. This book is a must read! By Monte Schae An Excellent Choice for a Book ClubReaders will find these narratives fascinating, all unique but with common themes of resilience and sometimes resistance. The hardships that the black maids encountered are echoed in the narratives of the white women who grew up with maids working for their families. As the whites look back they see a world through different eyes than the way things appeared to them at the time. The African Americans look back in pride at how they survived a system that was built on racial exploitation and oppression. Many of the stories are disturbing but also moving in the description of the bonds that sometimes formed across racial lines and lasted over the lifetimes of the individuals. The many references to southern and African American literature place the stories in historical context. The old family photographs of domestic servants at work and the recent pictures of the African American narrators enhance the power of the stories.
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