RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Legacies of Slavery: Black Domestic Workers, Waste, and the Body
T2 Legados de la esclavitud: las trabajadoras domésticas negras, la basura y el cuerpo
A1 Jiménez Placer, Susana María
K1 black women
K1 black domestics
K1 waste
K1 body
K1 excrement
K1 segregation
K1 US South
AB One of the legacies of slavery which helped shape the ideology of the Jim Crow South con-cerned the perpetuation of black women’s exclusion to the margins of the established orderthrough their exclusive association with the body and its functions. This association was usedto justify black women’s destiny as domestic workers in the Jim Crow South, which meantthat they were doomed to handle filth, and thus to become tainted with it according to theofficial discourse. This article explores first the deprecating connotations of the associationof black women with the body established by the dominant southern ideology as a relic ofthe slave period, and then focuses on black domestics’ involvement in the management ofbodily fluids and waste as part of their professional tasks in the Jim Crow South.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/32174
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/32174
LA en
DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 18-may-2024