Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-190) and index.
Contents
Introduction: working relations and racial desire -- Dressing down the first lady: Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the scenes, or thirty years a slave and four years in the White House -- Off-color patients in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy and W. D. Howells's An imperative duty -- 'Alien hands' in Kate Chopin's The awakening -- 'For blood that is not yours': Langston Hughes and the art of patronage -- Epilogue: 'co-workers in the kingdom of culture'.