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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Van Wormer, Katherine S.     Subjects     African American household employees -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.     Women household employees -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.     Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.     Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.     Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Van Wormer, Katherine S.       by title:      The maid narratives ...         MARC Display

The maid narratives : black domestic and white families in the Jim Crow South / Katherine van Wormer, David W. Jackson III, Charletta Sudduth. by Van Wormer, Katherine S. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2012. Subjects African American household employees -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.   Women household employees -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.   Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.   Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.   Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780807149683 (cloth : alk. paper) : 0807149683 (cloth : alk. paper) Description:  xviii, 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Contents:  pt. I. The background. Introduction -- History and context -- The women of the Great Migration -- pt. II. The maid narratives. In their own words: They didn't want no Negroes to have no freedom / Elra Johnson ; I worked in the home of William Faulkner / Pearline Sisk Jones ; The man didn't want me to wash my hands in the wash pan / Vinella Byrd ; My mother named me after her doll / Mamie Johnson ; I worked for white families as soon as I was old enough to walk / Annie Victoria Johnson ; I wish to God I could tell you more, but it's too painful / Irene Williams ; I came from a little nobody to somebody / Odessa Roberts ; She's twelve years old : call her Miss Nancy / Ruthie O'Neal ; You never went in the front door / Annie Pearl Stevenson ; It's just the way we lived down South : nobody bothered anybody / Jimmie Lane ; I always thought that my brother might have been kin to them [the white family] / Melvina Scott ; [My sister] told me, 'I would not only clean the bathroom but I'd take a bath in the bathtub / Hazel Rankins ; I always wanted to be a teacher / Gloria Kirkland Holmes -- The maid narrative themes. pt. III. The white family narratives. In their own words: It's just not done / Elise Talmage ; I don't remember experiencing any tension or problem resulting from this custom / Flora Talmage Landwehr ; Thanks for the memories / Anne Noell Rowan ; You have to talk to them, and really listen to them / Hal Chase ; It was what it was, and now is no more / Margaret Smith ; To realize ... that my family was a part of it was humiliating / Mary Hart ; Viola was my second mother / Lettice Binnings Stuart ; If only I had been able to appreciate her when I knew her as a child / Flora Templeton Stuart ; I grew up during Freedom Summer / Jeannie Falkner ; My story ... has only one act / Beth Walker ; It remains a difficult topic to discuss in polite company / Barbara Jentleson ; She remembered me as a small child / Ann Levy ; These photos have been in every kitchen I have ever had / Susan Burdon Hudgens ; I wonder if May ever thought of us being spoiled / Penny Hanks ; My parents were civil rights allies / Barbara Lehmann ; My father was Native American / Lacey Sloan -- The white family narrative themes. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 331.48164 Va Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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