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assistant professor and barbara young, national organizer of the national domestic workers alliance. barbara has been a domestic worker for the past 17 years and is an active member of domestic workers yuntded. thank you all for being here. i actually want to start with you, nicky, for two reasons. one, you know, i went absolutely nuts when this film came out. i had a lot of critical things to say. lots of folks said, oh, you re just mad because a white woman wrote it. i said, no! my favorite book written about black domestic workers is written by a white woman, your text clinging to mammy. i was hoping you could help us put into historic context, why in 2011/2012 are we still so enthralled with this idea of a maid figure? right. i think primarily what this film does is and what the book does is present us with a mammy mare tiff for the 21st century.

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what they gain from being domestic workers and in the household of the people that they work for. elon? see, even as you re saying, that i find it problematic because, yes, that s the case. this is the opening of the door for these problems. but should this have been the case? did we need a starter story? it s like you can t deal with real problems and real oppression and how domestic work hes have been treated so let s come up with this cute little thing that you can kind of have a bite size of so you kind of know there was a little bit of a problem. not the real problem yet, just enough so you can kind of go, oh, so apparently it wasn t all good for the domestic workers. yeah. i wanted to point out, one of the things i learned from clinging to mammy is about this 1923 senate-approved land space for a mammy monument. we just had the groundbreaking of the african-american history museum. i keep thinking that was probably the same ground on which they were going to put the

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necessary tick wo dmek tick workers. i woonant to be sure you expres what you found valuable about the film. you mentioned the civil rights movement and one thing that i find that was very valuable in this film is that people, millions of people, get to see and view the film who were i would say not interested in the civil rights movement, not interested in domestic workers, but they get to see domestic workers and it tells the story of domestic workers, whether wrong or right, the real-life domestic workers today can join in the film and sprelding tspreld i ing the word of what goes on in the industry. and the sufferings that they face and the whatever says

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