Posts Tagged ‘The Help’

August 20th, 2011

The Help, ethnography, and ickiness

posted by Jeffrey Guhin

This is a post about the politics of representation, postcolonial theory, and the Hollywood movie, The Help. And it begins with my Mom.

Tags: academia, African Americans, Cultural Anthropology, Edward Said, ethnography, Gayatri Spivak, Karl Marx, Kathryn Stockett, representation, sociology, The Help
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