This is the steele report. Our top thick week on the steele report, black History Month and a fascinating new book written by some local authors. Our questioning begins right now. Now from kwwl, this is the steele report. Welcome to this week he is weeks edition of the steele report. I would like to introduce them to you right now, dr. Katherine vam wormer is a professor of social work at the university of Northern Iowa in cedar falls, shes also an addiction specialist and author of several books, including the book were going to talk about here today which is entitled, the maid narratives, black domestics and white families in the jim crow south. Coauthored with Charletta Sudduth and also david w. Jackson, iii. Sudduth, coauthor of the book i just mentioned here. Your mother will join us a little later here on the program, too. She actually was one of the maids that youre talking about in your book. Yes. Lets talk first of all, it is black History Month and charletta, for you, what do
My sons came up with the idea a few years ago i should take p n plantation mistress to hollywood and say, real housewives of the old south. You should. But the patriot, at the same time, youre sitting there and these little freshmen come in, and why are you here, whats your interest . And they saw the film. Part of it is to get people excited about the past even if its not our past, even if its nobodys past, some fantasy past. Vampire past. And this brings us a question of what constitutes a film about slavery . Would you think of ride with the devil as a film about slavery or Cold Mountain . No. There are slaves in those films, but theyre very marginal and theyre thereubidleh almost to establish Cold Mountain had no slaves, no black voices. You see a black woman being drugged, being carried. R t hahp hc nod. And i think that was a subconscious Cold Mountain view of the world. We know theyre there, but this is our film. You even see Nicole Kidman taking refreshments out to the slaves b
Those hospitals. I think brooke put in our comment too that the women werent really around the men changing bandages but scarlet was all up in there. Shes was literally watching what was going on. Women usually removed from that because they were that pure for that sort of thing. She was kind of like a traditional, say your typical war nurse you would think of. Thats really not what it was like. Another thing to think about is that all of the hospital scenes that are portrayed are in the south at the end of the war so there are very few men around to help as nurses anyway. So there was a greater chance that women would take up these roles as acting as nurses whether she would do it in garb to do it is an entirely different matter but it is certainly possible to have women filling those roles in hospital. Right. Certainly in the south, it is more likely to see this in extreme circumstances where women would step in. . qc okay. What about scarlet owning a mill, running a mill and galavan
And by contributions to your pbc station from viewers like you. Thank you. The acclaimed play the trip to bountiful, Vanessa Williams, the role earned vanessa a slew of acting award nominations and those join some 11 gram knee n nominatio nominations, one tonyvokc nominations. Im out of breathe. Look look at a scene its here in los angeles. Well, its for her own good. Shes crazy. Why do you talk like that . You know mama know mama isnt crazy. Stop saying things like that. Well, you better do something, let me tell you that or shes going to clock out someplace. She goes to the bountiful side and bringing her body back. Do you know anything like that . Do you realize she had a sinking sail this morning . I know, you told me 100 times. What can i do about it . Im trying to tell you what you can do about it, call the police. Im not going to call the police. Youre not . No. I think i will. Im anxious to see this with my friend blare underwood in the play. As you recall, came to see yall on
Reporter its packed inside the east room and everyone is here. Weve seep some people already take their seats but most of them are going to make the procession in just a few minutes and we are talking about superstars. You cant believe the number of press and people and guests the excitement is palpable. S Ellen Degeneres is being honored. She couldnt make it into the white house because she didnt have her i. D. So she tweeted out a photo waiting until somebody gotten a i. D. And she was able to come in. But security as you can imagine is pretty tight, it always is here at the white house. But then she went back to the Reception Room and did a mannequin challenge with all the other honorees and they posted that on twitter so you can imagine theres a lot of fun people are having. But weve philanthropists bill and melinda gaits, sici ze cecily tyson, Kareem Abduljabbar, Michael Jordan. Then we saw snl creator Lorne Michaels who was here. Well try to get a question to see how hes feeling