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Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Wade,Peter (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: 2013-08
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Feminist Theory
Journal Title Details:: 14(2) : 187-202
Notes:: The sexualisation of racially subordinated people has been linked to the exercise of power. This article focuses on an aspect of subordination related to the condition of being a servant, and the ‘domestication’ and ‘acculturation’ that domestic service implies in societies where black and indigenous people are often linked to ‘backwardness’. Perceived racial otherness, class subordination, gender, age and domesticated servitude together reinforce an erotic image of sexual availability, particularly in younger women.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Glantz,Namino M. (Author)
Format:: Journal Article
Publication Date:: Spring 2005
Published:: Mexico: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Xochimilco
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Política y Cultura
Journal Title Details:: 23 : 83-105
Notes:: De qué manera puede el desarrollo influir y ser influido por el servicio doméstico? En la primera parte se plantean las posibles relaciones entre estos dos fenómenos y en seguida las tendencias generales en la industria del servicio doméstico. Las características de las trabajadoras domésticas se discuten en la segunda parte. En la tercera parte se detallan los patrones del servicio doméstico, el crecimiento económico, la modernización y la migración en Malasia, Zambia y Canadá, lo que revela dinámicas tanto compartidas como únicas y genera preguntas sobre las relaciones entre las trabajadoras domésticas y el Estado, las relaciones raciales, la (re)construcción del papel de género, clase y nociones de modernidad y los vínculos que guardan estas cuestiones con el desarrollo. Las observaciones en la cuarta parte reiteran las tendencias detectadas en los estudios de caso y delinean las inquietudes que de ahí se derivan.;

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Gaye,Egbert (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: 2005-04-08
Published:: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Montreal Community Contact
Journal Title Details:: 6 : 6
Notes:: "We shouldn't celebrate a scheme that brought women from the West Indies to Canada and kept many of them under domination and subordination by Canadian families," says Ms. [Antonia Sealy], a founding member of several community groups. "Personally, I regret making the decision to come on that scheme," she says. "I had a comfortable life in Barbados and a good job in the public service, but I was young and I wanted to travel and seek other opportunities. Had I known better I would have waited and sought out a commonwealth scholarship," she said. Ms. Sealy says that nothing she was told before leaving Barbados could have prepared her for the life of "subordination" at the homes of various families in Toronto.

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