Maid for Television

L. S. KIM is an associate professor in the Department of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has written about race, class, gender, and genre for The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media, The Sage Handbook of Television Studies, Flow TV, Journal of Film and Video, Anti-Feminisms in Media Culture, and Ms. Magazine. She serves on the Ms. Committee of Scholars, and has served on the American Film Institute Awards jury.  

1          Introduction: The Figure of the Racialized Domestic in American Television        

2          Domesticating Blackness: African Americans in Service in Comedy and Drama

3          Shades of Whiteness: White Servants Keeping Up a Class Ideal

4          Unresolvable Roles: Asian American Servants as Perpetual Foreigners

5          Invisible but Viewable: The Latina Maid in the Age of Nannygate

Epilogue         

AcknowledgmentsNotes

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