The popularity of this most recent iteration is troubling because it reveals a contemporary nostalgia for the days when a black woman could only hope to clean the White House rather than reside in it.The association's website refers those interested to Jacqueline Jones' Bancroft prize-winning classic, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present, among other works, for further reading on the women and workers… [read post]