Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life

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Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life (Black Women Writers Series)

Like One of the Family, which provides historical context for Kathryn Stockett's novel, The Help, is comprised of a series of conversations between Mildred, a black domestic, and her friend Marge. They create a vibrant picture of the life of a black working woman in New York in the 1950s.Rippling with satire and humor, Mildredâ€™s outspoken accounts capture vividly her white employersâ€™ complacency and condescensionâ€”and startled reactions to a maid who speaks her mind. As Mildred declares to a patronizing employer that she is not just like one of the family, or explains to Marge how a tricky employer has created a system of â€œhalf days offâ€ to cheat her help, we gain a glimpse not only of one womanâ€™s day to day struggle, but of her previous ache of racial oppression. A domestic who refuses to exchange dignity for pay, Mildred is an inspiring conversationalist, a dragon slayer in a segregated world.

The conversations in the book were first published in Freedom, the newspaper edited by Paul Robeson, and later in the Baltimore Afro-American. The book was originally published in the 1950s by in Brooklynâ€“based Independence Press, and Beacon Press brought out a new edition of it in 1986 with an introduction by the literary and cultural critic Trudier Harris.

Country	USA
Author	Alice Childress
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Beacon Press
EAN	9780807009031
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0807009032
Label	Beacon Press
Manufacturer	Beacon Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	264
PublicationDate	1986-10-31
Publisher	Beacon Press
ReleaseDate	1986-10-31
Studio	Beacon Press

Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life (Black Women Writers Series)

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