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

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Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life, Alice Childress, 1956, United States, SHORT STORIES

"In a series of one-way conversations with her friend Marge, Mildred examines life from the perspective of an African-American—"Negro"—domestic worker in New York City in the 1950s...When her employer tells her—with affectionate, if arrogantly ill-informed, intention—that she is "like one of the family," Mildred graphically points out the critical life differences that exist between a servant/employee and the boss..."

(J.L., p. 380)