Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Melissa Harris-Perry on "The Help"

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And me, on films like The Help.

3 comments:

Allison McCarthy said...

Love Melissa Harris-Perry and love this segment. Love the respect she gives to the domestic worker organizer Barbara Young speaking about the film -- a voice so rarely given space and volume and authenticity.

elle said...

And I am seriously willing to construct a bibliography that centers black women's telling snd remembrances of
their various forms of work.

Kimberly said...

Totally sums up how I felt about the movie. I thought Viola and Octavia were WONDERFUL actresses, but yes, the situation was completely oversimplified and caricature-ized.

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