S E1006: Tracey Walters: Not Your Mother's Mammy
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🗓️ 25 August 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Dr. Tracey Walters discusses her new book Not Your Mothers Mamie:The Black Domestic Worker in Transatlantic Women's Media. And why Hollywood continues to get "The Help" all wrong.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. We welcome Associate Professor of Literature in the Department of |
| 0:15.9 | African of Studies at Stony Brook University. Let me welcome the one only |
| 0:20.0 | Dr. Tracy Walters, welcome. |
| 0:23.0 | Thank you, thank you, Karen, long time listener, first time guests. |
| 0:28.0 | Yes, it is a pleasure to see you. |
| 0:31.0 | It's a pleasure to see you. It's a pleasure to see you. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm loving this topic. |
| 0:34.0 | We were talking off Mike about the potential to do more. |
| 0:37.3 | Because as I'm listening to all of these things |
| 0:40.9 | happening around critical race theory, |
| 0:43.2 | I'm realizing that not only are we miseducated, |
| 0:48.2 | but now there's probably always been a willful burying |
| 0:52.2 | of some troops. |
| 0:53.8 | So talk about the impetus for you doing, |
| 0:57.8 | not your mother's mammy. |
| 0:59.4 | It came to me actually, probably late in the 1980s when I wasn't even a student yet |
| 1:04.2 | wasn't even thinking about graduate school coming from the UK over to America |
| 1:09.5 | moving to Brooklyn New York I was really perplexed to see the amount of Caribbean women working as nannies, right? |
| 1:15.7 | Pushing strollers with babies that didn't match. And it was just a weird thing for me to see I wasn't used to, you know, I wasn't accustomed to seeing that in the UK. |
| 1:24.3 | And it really bothered me but I didn't know why. |
| 1:26.6 | I didn't truly understand the history of America and racism and slavery and that transition |
| 1:32.4 | from working on the plantation to then in. and that |
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