Only in interrogating this cultural invisibility can we contest the ways in which neoliberalism and postracism interplay to reify middle-class whiteness as the default subject position for women in screen media in the twenty-first century. I go on to argue that the film simultaneously offers a sceptical reading of Stockett's and Skeeter's appropriative projects, finding ways to make characters' whiteness visible, embodied and accountable. Through an analysis of The Help's filmic strategies for inscribing whiteness as a form of absence, this article posits that women of colour are erased and excluded by our continuing cultural reluctance to " see " whiteness and its privileges. Both authors rely on the invisibility of their whiteness and white privilege in order to inhabit, and, appropriate from, marginalised subjectivities. Not only is The Help (2009 2011) a text within which a white woman author (Eugenia " Skeeter " Phelan, played by Emma Stone) profits from the lives of women of colour, but it is also a text originally written by a white woman author (Kathryn Stockett) who profits from the real and/or imagined lives of women of colour. Minny gets fired by Hilly Holbrook just because of using the bathroom reserved for the whites and barred to the black servants. Miss Hilly Holbrook's general behavior and manners towards her black house staff is openly hostile and racist. She has been working for Miss Hilly Holbrook who is a white lady. She always speaks behind the back of her masters and has the repute of being a hot headed maid. She has been fired many times by her white mistresses because she is an outspoken maid. The second protagonist is Minny Jackson who too is a Black woman and famous for her excellent cooking in the whole town. She is working as a nanny in Leefolt's house, taking care of Mae Mobley who is the seventeenth child in her life.
There are three main characters in the story: Aibileen Clark, who is a Black woman working as a household maid in a home that is owned by a white man Mr. It is about how they live in a discriminating environment, face violence and abasement but at the same time have hope for change, betterment and peace.
The book is an attempt at describing a true picture of the life of black female domestic/ household servants. Kathryn Stockett's book "The Help" was published in (2009).
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