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Like one of the family : conversations from a domestic's life
- Title
- Like one of the family : conversations from a domestic's life / Alice Childress ; foreword by Roxane Gay ; introduction by Trudier Harris.
- Author
- Childress, Alice
- Publication
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2017]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc D 17-2529 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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- Description
- xlii, 221 pages; 22 cm
- 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"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Note
- "Published originally by Independence Publishers, Brooklyn, New York, 1956"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- Sc D 17-2529
- ISBN
- 9780807050743 (paperback)
- 0807050741 (paperback)
- LCCN
- 2016040880
- OCLC
- 961923812
- Author
- Childress, Alice, author.
- Title
- Like one of the family : conversations from a domestic's life / Alice Childress ; foreword by Roxane Gay ; introduction by Trudier Harris.
- Publisher
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Gay, Roxane, writer of foreword.Harris, Trudier, writer of introduction.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 17-2529