L. S. Kim, Maid for Television: Race, Class, Gender, and a Representational Economy

pursues an intertextual and historical analysis of domestic servants throughout American television in Maid for Television: Race, Class, Gender, and a Representational Economy.Kim weaves together in-depth episode analyses from various television programs with overarching cultural themes to examine how race operates as a representational frame that "economizes" differences (p.164).This analysis has meaningful implications for critical race theorists, media producers, feminist scholarship, and intersectional media studies scholars.The book tackles the figure of the racialized domestic servant in U.S. television from the 1950s up until