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The Help by Kathryn Stockett:

The novel takes place nearly a century after the end of slavery, yet many of the black characters in the book still work extremely demanding and unpleasant jobs.

What factors (social, economic, educational, etc.) keep them in these sorts of positions?

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Social biases keep them in their places. The line drawn by community between whites and blacks is what keeps black in extremely demanding and unpleasant jobs. The treatment of black employees is also different from white employees.

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THE HELP is a novel by Kathryn Stockett written in 2009 on maids living in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962

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