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Lädt ... The Maid's Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream (2011)von Mary Romero
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2012 Americo Paredes Book Award Winner for Non-Fiction presented by the Center for Mexican American Studies at South Texas CollegeSelected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School LibrariesThis is Olivia’s story. Born in Los Angeles, she is taken to Mexico to live with her extended family until the age of three. Olivia then returns to L.A. to live with her mother, Carmen, the live-in maid to a wealthy family. Mother and daughter sleep in the maid’s room, just off the kitchen. Olivia is raised alongside the other children of the family. She goes to school with them, eats meals with them, and is taken shopping for clothes with them. She is like a member of the family. Except she is not. Based on over twenty years of research, noted scholar Mary Romero brings Olivia’s remarkable story to life. We watch as she grows up among the children of privilege, struggles through adolescence, declares her independence and eventually goes off to college and becomes a successful professional. Much of this extraordinary story is told in Olivia’s voice and we hear of both her triumphs and setbacks. We come to understand the painful realization of wanting to claim a Mexican heritage that is in many ways not her own and of her constant struggle to come to terms with the great contradictions in her life. In The Maid’s Daughter, Mary Romero explores this complex story about belonging, identity, and resistance, illustrating Olivia’s challenge to establish her sense of identity, and the patterns of inclusion and exclusion in her life. Romero points to the hidden costs of paid domestic labor that are transferred to the families of private household workers and nannies, and shows how everyday routines are important in maintaining and assuring that various forms of privilege are passed on from one generation to another. Through Olivia’s story, Romero shows how mythologies of meritocracy, the land of opportunity, and the American dream remain firmly in place while simultaneously erasing injustices and the struggles of the working poor.A happy ending for the maid's daughter: Hector Tobar's profile of Olivia for the LA Times Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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This is a wonderful view of the societal and class constructs of the relationship between domestic worker's families and the employing family. Mary Romero conducted a twenty year field study, which followed several children of domestic workers. The most in depth story was that of Olivia, who became a favorite of the family her mother worked for, to the extent that they had her sleep in the family quarters and paid for her to attend a prestigious school. This is a great look into identity and socially constructed roles based on ethnicity.
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"I just never felt like I belonged to anybody's family. I just didn't belong." (55)