Like One of the Family Childress Alice
A new edition of Childress's hilarious, uncompromising novel about African American domestic workers, featuring a foreword by Roxane GayFirst published in Paul Robeson's newspaper, Freedom, and…
Specifikacia Like One of the Family Childress Alice
A new edition of Childress's hilarious, uncompromising novel about African American domestic workers, featuring a foreword by Roxane GayFirst published in Paul Robeson's newspaper, Freedom, and composed of a series of conversations between Mildred, a black domestic, and her friend Marge, Like One of the Family is a wry, incisive portrait of working women in Harlem in the 1950's. Rippling with satire and humor, Mildred's outspoken accounts vividly capture her white employers' complacency and condescension--and their startled reactions to a maid who speaks her mind and refuses to exchange dignity for pay.Upon publication the book sparked a critique of working conditions, laying the groundwork for the contemporary domestic worker movement. Although she was critically praised, Childress's uncompromising politics and unflinching depictions of racism, classism,
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