Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
Autore di Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, D.C., 1910-1940
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Elizabeth Clark-Lewis is director of the Public History Program at Howard University and co-producer of the award-winning video freedom Bags.
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Lewis arranges excerpts from the women’s stories into chapters organized around different periods in their lives. I learned much from their depictions of their childhood in the deep south when they were put to work and given responsibility at unbelievably young ages and how they went north less of their own volition than out of the survival needs of their extended families. I had no idea how laundresses served as role models for live-in servants, giving them suggestions for gaining day jobs.
But the truth of the women’s stories is not necessarily the larger truth about black women as domestic servants or about black women’s history more generally. As bell hooks says, “All too often in our society, it is assumed that one can know about black people by merely hearing the life story and opinions of one black person.” (Ain’t I a Woman, 11)
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