[Online library] Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, D.C., 1910-1940
☆ Elizabeth Clark-Lewis ☆
| #944485 in Books | Smithsonian Books | 2010-07-06 | 2010-07-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.53 x6.00l,.81 | File Name: 1588342867 | 256 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Important research on African American women|By Virginia reader|This gem of a book is absolutely essential work to understanding post-Civil War African American life in the South. I live in northern Virginia and know of many families who worked in this way to make money for their families. My only complaint is that author used pseudonyms for the women, and, although I understa|From Booklist|Clark-Lewis conducted interviews with African American women born in rural areas of the South around the turn of the century. It is with great respect that she presents the life stories collected fr
This oral history portrays the lives of African American women who migrated from the rural South to work as domestic servants in Washington, DC in the early decades of the twentieth century. In Living In, Living Out Elizabeth Clark-Lewis narrates the personal experiences of eighty-one women who worked for wealthy white families. These women describe how they encountered—but never accepted—the master-servant relationship, and recount their struggles to...
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