“‘There’s nobody with common sense that can look down on the domestic worker’: Dirt, Disease, and Hygiene in Alice Childress’s Like One of the Family.”

In this Center for the Study of Women in Society presentation, Galentine will explore the creative ways Alice Childress's character Mildred, a Black working-class domestic worker, navigates racial discourses of hygiene and utilizes her proximity within the domestic sphere of labor to resist environmental injustice.