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Beyond Norma Rae

How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class

By: Aimee Loiselle

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Beyond Norma Rae

How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class

By: Aimee Loiselle

In the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the published biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white southern textile worker, and transformed it into a blockbuster 1979 film, Norma Rae, featuring Sally Field in the title role. This fascinating book reveals how the film and the popular icon it created each worked to efface the labor history that formed the foundation of the film's story. Drawing on an impressive range of sources—union records, industry reports, film scripts, and oral histories—Aimee Loiselle's cutting-edge scholarship shows how gender, race, culture, film, and mythology have reconfigured and often undermined the history of the American working class and its labor activism. While Norma Rae constructed a powerful image of individual defiance by a white working-class woman, Loiselle demonstrates that female industrial workers across the country and from diverse racial backgrounds understood the significance of cultural representation and fought to tell their own stories. Loiselle painstakingly reconstructs the underlying histories of working women in this era and makes clear that cultural depictions must be understood as the complicated creations they are.

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UNC Press Books

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Beyond Norma Rae

How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class

By: Aimee Loiselle

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How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class

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I Can Only Imagine

By: Aimee G. Bartlett

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I Can Only Imagine

By: Aimee G. Bartlett

I am a lover not a hater... now. I once had a list of people that I DID NOT like and I did everything I could possibly think of to avoid them. But as time went on, I started going to church more and He says, "Forgive all of those who have hurt you, because I have forgiven you." LORD I now forget about anything that has happened in the past; it is now gone. As they say," Forget the Past, Live the Present, and Anticipate the Future I show love to all of those around me.

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America Star Books

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1629077070

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