Lessons from Jim Crow Maids

Katherine van Wormer's book, The Maid Narratives: Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South draws on interviews from black maids and white women who had maids, to understand the reality of segregation, its norms, and its consequences.

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Lessons from Jim Crow Maids
BONUS: Segregation Norms In New Orleans, Mississippi, Kentucky, & Iowa
BONUS: Black Maids In the North
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