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 their aprons.

Examineaza modul in care artistii de culoare ai diasporei africane, multi dintre ei fosti domestici, reconstituie subiectivitatile feminine negre ale domesticilor in fictiune, film si arta vizuala si performanta. Facand acest lucru, ei submineaza imaginile unidimensionale ale domesticilor de culoare ca victime lipsite de voce si de actiune si demonstreaza ca lucratorii domestici sunt mai mult decat sorturile lor.