Alice Walker: Everyday Use (Dramatization)
Bruce R. Schwartz
Maggie sees the old family quilt—an heirloom already promised to her—as something with practical utility as well as tradition. Her educated, social activist sister wants to hang it on the wall as folk art. With whom will their mother side? A study in class differences and the reclamation of black history, Alice Walker’s short story "Everyday Use" is beautifully realized in this dramatization. (26 minutes)