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“Issues of Our Time” is a new section of JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies devoted to a prompt and timely analysis of pressing issues of national or international concern by scholars, activists, and intellectuals. The inaugural issue focuses on the film, The Help, which was based on best-selling book, "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett. The film was directed by Stockett's friend, Tate Taylor. The film stars Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer and others. The production companies for the film include DreamWorks Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, Participant Media, Imagenation and 1492 Pictures. The film is distributed by Touchstone Pictures.
Table of Contents
Editorial
| Editorial: Issues of Our Time on The Help |
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| Nkiru Nzegwu |
Videos
| Helen Dennis Discusses Her Experiences as a Domestic Worker |
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| Helen Dennis, Michael J. Dennis |
Poems
| Sisterhood |
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| Nkiru Uwechia |
Articles
| The Solace of Preparing Fried Foods and Other Quaint Remembrances from 1960s Mississippi: Thoughts on The Help |
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| Roxane Gay |
| “The Help,” a Feel-Good Movie for White People |
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| Valerie Boyd |
| Reading The Help |
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| Susannah Bartlow |
| Will We Rise to the Challenge?: Three Ways of Viewing “The Help” |
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| Ulli K. Ryder |
| Chocolate Breast Milk: A Review of The Help |
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| Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |
| Where The Help Is: A Latina Perspective on Hollywood |
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| Rosa Maria Pegueros |
| An Open Statement to the Fans of The Help |
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| Association of Black Women Historians |
| African-American Domestics in Defense of Themselves |
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| Vanessa H. May |
| Kathryn Stockett Is Not My Sister and I Am Not Her Help |
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| Duchess Harris |
| The Help Fizzles as Historical Fiction (Book Review) |
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| Jannifer McAdoo |
| The Help: A Review |
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| Katelin Hansen |
| How to Make Mammies and Influence People |
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| Lasana Kazembe |
| 'The Help' Leaves her Longing for a More Authentic Story |
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| Duchess Harris |
| The Help Promises Drama, but Delivers “ONE Liner!” (Movie Review) |
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| Jannifer McAdoo |
| 'The Help' and White Female Identity |
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| Stephanie M. Crumpton |
| The Help and the Voices of African American Women |
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| Rebecca Sharpless |
| To All Who Loved The Help and to Those Who Found It Problematic |
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| Linda A. Bell |
| A Black Girl from South Carolina Responds to Novel The Help |
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| Angela M. Nelson |
| On Not Accepting the Terms in which the Exploitation Takes Place |
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| Ellen Moody |
| Helped: A Personal, Multi-Racial, Undignified, Non-Redemption Story |
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| Moira K. Amado-McCoy |
| Whiteness and White Guilt in the Re-Imaging of the Civil Rights Era in The Help |
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| Janell Hobson |
| Eudora Welty's Jackson: 'The Help' In Context |
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| W. Ralph Eubanks |
| Help Wanted |
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| Michael J. Dennis |
| The Spectrum of 'Elite White Southern Women': Responding to The Help |
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| Trysh A. Travis |
| "I Just Made Shit Up!" Kathryn Stockett and The Story Behind 'The Help' |
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| Shydel James |
Historical Documents
| More Slavery at the South |
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| A Negro Nurse |
| Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War |
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| Nancy Bostick De Saussure |
JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies. ISSN: 1530-5686 (online).
Editors: Nkiru Nzegwu; Book Editor: Mary Dillard.
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