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This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet Beecher Stowe´s Uncle Tom´s Cabin to Kathryn Stockett´s Th e Hel p .

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Introduction: What´s at Stake When White Writes Black?; Claire Oberon Garcia, Vershawn Ashanti Young, Charise Pimentel 1. Bearing Witness?: The Problem with the White Cross-Racial (Mis)Portrayals of History; Luminita Dragulescu 2. ´Must the Novelist Ask Permission?´: Authority and Authenticity of the Black Voice in the works of Eudora Welty and Kathryn Stockett´s The Help ; Ebony Lumumba 3. ´Blackness as Medium: Envisioning White Southern Womanhood in Eudora Welty´s ´A Worn Path´ and Delta Wedding and Kathryn Stockett´s The Help ; Elizabeth J. West 4. ´Taking care a white babies, that´s what I do´: The Help and Americans´ Obsession with the Mammy; Katrina Thompson 5. ´When folks is real friends, there ain´t no such thing as place´: Feminist Sisterhood and the Politics of Social Hierarchy in The Help; Shana Russell 6. Black Girlhood and The Help : Constructing Black Girlhood in a ´Post´ -Racial, -Gender and Welfare State; Julia S. Jordan-Zachery 7. Second (and Third, and Fourth...) Helpings: Black Women, Size, and Spectacle in The Help ; Mecca Jamilah Sullivan 8. Mae Mallory and ´The Southern Belle Fantasy Trope´ at The Cuyahoga County Jail 21st and Payne PAIN.; Paula Marie Seniors 9. ´Bleeping Mark Twain?´: Censorship, Huckleberry Finn , and the Functions of Literature; Robert T. Tally, Jr. 10. White Lies & Black Consequences: Margaret Jones and the Complex Dynamics of the Publishing Industry; Josephine Metcalf 11. ´A Secondhand Kind of Terror´: Grace Hasell, Kathryn Stockett, and the Ironies of Empathy; Alsiha Gaines 12. ´Saviour´ Good Mother, Jezebel, Tom, Trickster: The Blind Side Myth; Pearlie Strother-Adams 13. Blindsided by Racism: A Critical Analysis of The Blind Side; Charise Pimentel and Sarah Santíllanes 14. Django Unchained : An Analysis; Karen A. Johnson 15. Are the Kids All Right? : A look at Post-Racial Presentations in The Kids are All Right; Jenise Hudson Afterword: Manufactured Maids, Mammies and Falsified History: No White Help Wanted or Needed; Maulana Karenga

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Alisha Gaines, Florida State University, USA Luminita Dragulescu, Virginia Union University, USA Julia Jordan-Zachery, Providence College, USA Sarah Leah Santíllanes, University of New Mexico, USA Jenise Hudson, Florida State University, USA Karen A. Johnson, University of Utah, USA Ebony Lumumba, University of Mississippi, USA Josephine Metcalf, University of Hull, UK Shana Russell, Rutgers University-Newark, USA Paula Marie Seniors, Virginia Tech University, USA Pearlie Strother-Adams, Western Illinois University, USA Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Williams College, USA Robert T. Tally, Jr., Texas State University, USA Katrina D. Thompson, Saint Louis University, USA Elizabeth J. West, Georgia State University, USA

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