Like One of the Family cid_6747 This timely reissue tells the

This timely reissue tells the little-known story of a pioneering group of Black mothers who built one of this country's most successful antipoverty programs

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and explores current debates around the use of Native American imagery and the cultural appropriation of Black culture

Like One of the Family cid_6747 This timely reissue tells theFirst 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 condescensionand their startled reactions to a maid who speaks her mind and refuses to exchange