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Childress, Alice.
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Women, Black -- Fiction.
Women household employees -- Fiction.
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Childress, Alice.
Women, Black -- Fiction.
Women household employees -- Fiction.
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Like
one
of the
family
:
conversations
from a
domestic
's
life
/ Alice Childress ; foreword by Roxane Gay ; introduction by Trudier Harris.
by
Childress, Alice.
Beacon Press, c2017.
Call #:
FICTION CHI
Subjects
Women, Black -- Fiction.
Women household employees -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780807050743 (trade pbk.)
0807050741 (trade pbk.)
Description:
xlii, 221 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"Published originally by Independence Publishers, Brooklyn, New York, 1956"--T. p. verso.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"A new edition of Alice Childress's classic novel about African American
domestic
workers, featuring a foreword by Roxane Gay First 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, and sexism relegated her to the fringe of American literature.
Like
One
of the
Family
has been long overlooked, but this new edition, featuring a foreword by best-selling author Roxane Gay, will introduce Childress to a new generation"--From publisher.
Genre:
Domestic
fiction.
Black fiction.
Literary fiction.
Other authors:
Gay, Roxane.
Harris, Trudier.
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Captain William Spry Public Library
Adult Black Fiction
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