Like One of the Family, Childress Alice

The hilarious, uncompromising novel about African American domestic workers--from a trailblazer in Black womens literature and now featuring a foreword by Roxane Gay

First published in Paul Robesons 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 1950s. Rippling with satire and humor, Mildreds 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.