https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1QN9CwKi5k2RjVnOGZwS01PX1k
"Live-in Cook" by Monique Truong
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1QN9CwKi5k2LXV3T2hpS281ek0
"I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1QN9CwKi5k2VVh2T3VjNjlYR2M
Fiction
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mocking Bird (Calpurnia- the maid at the Finch home)
William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
Biographies and Autobiographies
Judith Sensibar's Faulkner and Love: The Women Who Shaped His Art
Lillian Smith's Killers of the Dream
Sallie Bingham's Passion and Prejudice: A Family Memoir
Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968)
English's Francine (1999)Holland's From the Mississippi Delta (1997)
Essays
Howell Raines' New York Times essay "Grady's Gift" (1991)
Michelle Tully's "Lifitng Our Voices: African American Culture Responses to Trauma and Loss" (1999)
Katherine Stovel's "Local Sequential Patterns: The Structure of Lynching in the Deep South, 1882-1930" (2001)
Fiona Handley's "Memorializing Race in the Deep South: The 'Good Darkie' Statue" (2007)
Novel By African American Writers
Ann Petry
Kristin Hunter
Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (1969)
Poems
Langston Hughes' 1949 "Graduation"; "The Negro Mother" (1931)
Research
Dollard, John. Caste and Class in a Southern Town. 1937
Powdermaker, Hortense. After Freedom: A Cultural Study of the Deep South. 1939
Rogers, Kim L. Life and Death in the Delta: African American Narratives of Violence, Resilience, and Social Change. 2006
Wise, Tim. Color-Blind (2010)
Tucker, Susan. Telling Memories among Southern Women: Domestic Workers and Their Employers in the Segregated South. 1988
McMillen, Sally. Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South. (1992)
Ritterhouse, Jennifer. Growing Up Jim Crow. (2006)
Rogers, Kim Lacy. Life and Death in the Delta. (2006)
Jones, Jaqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and Family, from Slavery to the Present. 2nd ed. 2007
McElya, Micki. Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in the Twentieth-Century America. 2007
Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth. Living in, Living Out: African American Domestics and the Great Migration. 1996.
Boehm, Lisa K. Making a Way of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration. 2009
Berlin, Ira. The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations. 2010
Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. 2011.
Romero, Mary - Chicana domestic workers
Cock, Jacklyn. Maids and Madams: Domestic Workers under Apartheid (1989) South Africa
Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan. The Unnatural History of the Nanny. 1973
Movies
Rebecca Snedeker, award-winning documentary filmmaker,captured the secret world of preparation of a socially prominent young woman in training to be queen of one of the oldest and most prestigious balls -tough unnamed in the film- most likely Comus or Proteus at Mardi Gras; the film is called By Invitation Only
[New Orleans tradition of balls see Eileen Southern's The Music of Black Americans: History (1997)]
The Long Walk Home 1990(with Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg)
Giant 1956 (Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson)
Television shows
Upstairs, Downstairs (1970s) BBC show
Downton Abbey (2000s) show
Ortner, Sherry B. "Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?"
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1QN9CwKi5k2TVpKNVBaM1RpNVE
Duffy, Mignon. "Doing the Dirty Work"
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1QN9CwKi5k2QkxiU3VZbFUzUG8
Williams, Christine L. "Glass Escalator“The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the “Female”
Professions.”
Willett, Julie A. “‘Hands Across the Table": A Short History
of the Manicurist in the
Twentieth Century.”
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