1. Doyle Greene, The American Worker on Film: A Critical History, 1909–1999 (New York: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2010), 8.
2. See Ronald L. Grimes, Deeply Into the Bone: Re-inventing Rites of Passage (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002)
3. and Catherine Bell, Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
4. For discussions of gender, race, and class as linked social relations of power in the development of black women’s identities in the United States, historically, see Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race and Class (New York: First Vintage Books, 1983)
5. and bell hooks, Homeplace: A Site of Resistance (Boston: South End Press, 1990).