Shifting the Affordable Housing Narrative Through Arts and Culture

摘要

Despite often being intimately close to the families who employ them, domesticworkers are often little valued and extremely vulnerable. Racist caricatures such asthe mammy trope and the more recent Latina house cleaner often demean andexoticize domestic workers.The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) recognizes that harmfulstereotypes and portrayals of domestic workers must change in order to win betterconditions for those workers. That’s why NDWA lists narrative power along withpolitical and economic power among its top goals.