The everyday embrace of inequality

The big winner at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday night was The Help, a film about the relationship between African American maids and their employers in 1960s Mississippi. The film, and the book on which it is based, is well-meaning, but both patronising and sentimental. Critics see it as a nostalgic feel good experience (“we were so racist then but we are so much more evolved now”) for contemporary white Americans, while ignoring the inequality between employers and domestic workers in the U.S. today.

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