Word: rosaleen
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...Owens, played by Dakota Fanning, who in the first scene of the movie frightfully awakens from a nightmare of her mother’s death. We are introduced to the ensuing mystery of who her mother really was. Lily lives with her widowed father (Paul Bettany) and black housekeeper, Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson), in a small, dry, dusty town in South Carolina during the height of the Civil Rights movement. The relationship between the three is all too familiar: Lily’s father is abusive and distant while Rosaleen acts as a surrogate parent. After a violent clash with several...
...chosen for Oprah's Book Club. (It wasn't, though it did make Good Morning America's reading list.) The 2002 novel is a coming-of-age story about a white girl, Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning), who flees her abusive father and, in the company of her black nanny Rosaleen, finds refuge and surrogate motherhood with three Afro-angelic sisters who run a bee farm. Why did Kidd, a white woman, choose these heroines? "I grew up surrounded by black women," she told one interviewer. "I feel they are like hidden royalty dwelling among...
...wide world of socially responsible travel, one of the cardinal rules has long been "Take only pictures, leave only footprints." After reading academic Rosaleen Duffy's critical analysis of the impacts of "ethical," nature-based tourism, A Trip Too Far - Ecotourism, Politics & Exploitation (Earthscan; 210 pages), altruistic souls may feel they have little choice but to do their exploring the old-fashioned way - in a comfortable chair with a stack of books. Duffy, a lecturer at Britain's Lancaster University, pulls no punches in her critique of the political nature of "green" tourism. It is, she argues, a fundamentally capitalistic...