From Mammies to Militants. Domestics in Black American Literature

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Written by Professor Trudier Harris who explores the differences between Northern and Southern maids and between "mammy" and "militant." She touches on nearly all Black American writers of the twentieth century, but gives extended discussion of works by Charles Chesnutt, Kristin Hunter, Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, William Melin Kelley, Alice Childresss, John A. Williams, Douglas Turner Ward, Barbara Woods, Ted Shine, and Ed Bullins.