Maid for Television : : Race, Class, Gender, and a Representational Economy / / L. S. Kim.
Maid for Television examines race, class, and gender relations as embodied in a long history of television servants from 1950 to the turn of the millennium. Although they reside at the visual peripheries, these figures are integral to the idealized American family. Author L. S. Kim redirects viewers...
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023] 2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 30 B-W images |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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 Shadow of Nannygate
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author