Intersectionality in Movies: The Help

[obamanut2012]

24. Skeeter's maid's name was Constantine

But, I think you make a valid point, even if it was handled a bit tone-deaf. There was a significant number of educated young men and women from the pre-integration who could not stand to live in the Deep South. Some for adventure, young women mainly for the societal constraints forced upon them (marriage, Junior league, babies, Ladies Auxiliary), but also quite a few left because of what we would call political reasons: conservatism gone mad, violence, racism, surrounding poverty and ignorance.

I do think, mistertrickster, that more than a few of these young men and women discovered limitations and cruelty of their society through the lives the Black women who cared for them and their homes, and the Black men who labored for their fathers, were forced to live. And the very narrow path of those lives, with pain and death on either side of that path, waiting like land mines.

I also thought the relationship between Minnie and the "poor white" newlywed Celia was affecting and interesting, because the "poor whites" were also despised by the same White Society that ground down the Blacks in that society.