Maid for Television examines the racialized female domestic by tracing the maid’s representational and narrative function in American television. As domestic service has been a long-standing occupation for women of color, the figure of the maid in the employer’s home is a recurrent and patterned image, simultaneously enacting and revealing the nexus of race, class, and gender hierarchies in American culture.
Maid for Television examines the racialized female domestic by tracing the maid’s representational and narrative function in American television. As domestic service has been a long-standing occupation for women of color, the figure of the maid in the employer’s home is a recurrent and patterned image, simultaneously enacting and revealing the nexus of race, class, and gender hierarchies in American culture.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
L. S. KIM is an associate professor in the Department of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has written about race, class, gender, and genre for The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media, The Sage Handbook of Television Studies, Flow TV, Journal of Film and Video, Anti-Feminisms in Media Culture, and Ms. Magazine. She serves on the Ms. Committee of Scholars, and has served on the American Film Institute Awards jury.
Inhaltsangabe
1 Introduction: The Figure of the Racialized Domestic in American Television 2 Domesticating Blackness: African Americans in Service in Comedy and Drama 3 Shades of Whiteness: White Servants Keeping Up a Class Ideal 4 Unresolvable Roles: Asian American Servants as Perpetual Foreigners 5 Invisible but Viewable: The Latina Maid in the Age of Nannygate Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
1 Introduction: The Figure of the Racialized Domestic in American Television 2 Domesticating Blackness: African Americans in Service in Comedy and Drama 3 Shades of Whiteness: White Servants Keeping Up a Class Ideal 4 Unresolvable Roles: Asian American Servants as Perpetual Foreigners 5 Invisible but Viewable: The Latina Maid in the Age of Nannygate Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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