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

Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life (BLACK WOMEN WRITERS SERIES)
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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
Brand Beacon Press
Manufacturer Beacon Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 1986-10-31
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780807009031

Country	USA
Brand	Beacon Press
Manufacturer	Beacon Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	1986-10-31
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780807009031

Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life (BLACK WOMEN WRITERS SERIES)

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