Readers Review: "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-02-25/readers-review-help-kathryn-stockett
Diane invites listeners to join a Readers' Review discussion of a novel that has touched a nerve with many people. It's topping best-seller lists across the country. "The Help" by Kathyrn Stockett centers on a young, white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.
Guests
The Right Reverand Jane Holmes Dixon
The Right Reverend Jane Holmes Dixon, retired Episcopal Bishop of Washington, Pro-tempore.
E. Ethelbert Miller
poet; director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University, Board Chair of the Institute for Policy Study. And author of the forthcoming book "On Saturdays I Santana With You."
Natalie Hopkinson
media and culture critic for TheRoot.com, The Washington Post's black interest Web magazine. She is coauthor of "Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation" and the forthcoming book, "Go-Go Live."
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Isn't it ironic that these women were not permitted to use the bathroom n the main ho/use but for the most part the children were suckled by these very women.
I thought one of the more poignant aspects of the book was the focus on the "turning" of the white children who loved their black maids into the adult women who were "able" to treat their maids with prejudice and disdain.
Although the author doesn't explain how this shift could occur, emotionally, the fact of such an "evolution" is amply described and gives readers a very important behavior to contemplate.