Telling memories among Southern women : domestic workers and their employers in the segregated South

 by Susan Tucker.  Tucker explores the complex relationships between servants and their employers, also treated by Judith Rollins in Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers (CH, Feb '86), Daniel E. Sutherland in Americans and Their Servants: Domestic Service in the United States from 1890 to 1920 (1981), and David M. Katzman in Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America (CH, Feb '79). Tucker's contribution to this historiography is a study of that relationship as it is complicated by southern racial ideas. The book is a collection of edited transcripts of interviews with black domestics and white women who employed black domestics. The interviews are divided by subject into five parts and an epilogue. Tucker maintains that black domestics played a unique role as go-between in a segregated society. Her record of their memories and perceptions, as well as the memories of those in whose houses they worked, will be useful for anyone seeking to understand more about women's or southern history. --Choice (Check Catalog)