From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to The Help

1. Introduction
Claire Oberon Garcia, Vershawn Ashanti Young, Charise Pimentel

2. Bearing Witness?
Luminita M. Dragulescu

3. “Must the Novelist Ask Permission?”
Ebony Lumumba

4. Blackness as Medium
Elizabeth J. West

5. “Taking Care a White Babies, That’s What I Do”
Katrina Dyonne Thompson

6. “When Folks Is Real Friends, There Ain’t No Such Thing as Place”
Shana Russell

7. Black Girlhood and The Help

Julia S. Jordan-Zachery

8. Second (and Third, and Fourth …) Helpings
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

9. Mae Mallory and “The Southern Belle Fantasy Trope” at the Cuyahoga County Jail, 21st and Payne/“Pain”
Paula Marie Seniors

10. Bleeping Mark Twain?
Robert T. Tally

11. White Lies and Black Consequences
Josephine Metcalf

12. “A Secondhand Kind of Terror”
Alisha Gaines

13. “Savior,” Good Mother, Jezebel, Tom, Trickster
Pearlie Strother-Adams

14. Blindsided by Racism
Charise Pimentel, Sarah Santíllanes

15. Django Unchained
Karen A. Johnson

16. Are the Kids All Right?
Jenise Hudson

17. Afterword Manufactured Maids, Mammies, and Falsified History
Maulana Karenga

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Film and Television Studies, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Literature, general, Literary History, North American Literature