African American and Chicano Women

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Both African-American women and Chicano women migrated to a new area for a better life. Unfortunately, domestic work was the only work available to these women. The writer shows how these women faced difficulties and also achieved rewards in this area of employment.

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"The image of the African American domestic servant continues to be in our memory and a part of mainstream American culture. There are numerous films depicting servants of minority descent. Yet, that image is a gross distortion. The women we have read about had little in common with the film versions, whose dignity and pride are not depicted or remembered by our society. Elizabeth Clark-Lewis interviewed 81 black women who migrated from the South to Washington, D.C., during the first three decades of this century in her book Living In, Living Out. When they arrived, domestic service was nearly the only available employment."

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