Paid Servant by E R Braithwaite

Paid Servant by E R Braithwaite

E. R. Braithwaite, the acclaimed author of To Sir, With Love, poignantly recounts his time as a social worker dedicated to London's abandoned minority children
Despite his Cambridge education and a sterling record with the British Royal Air Force during World War I, E. R. Braithwaite, a black man, was unable to find employment as an engineer in post-war London. Instead he accepted a position as a teacher in a tough East End school and wrote of his experiences in his classic bestseller To Sir, With Love. Nine years later, Braithwaite once again found himself assuming an unfamiliar professional role as a social worker charged with finding homes for London's orphaned, abused, or abandoned coloured children. While he lacked formal training, Braithwaite possessed qualities essential for the job: compassion, determination, and a deep, abiding understanding and love for the helpless, lost, and disregarded.
In Paid Servant, E. R. Braithwaite shares his experiences in London's Department of Child Welfare, focusing on the case of his four-year-old client Roddy, a bright, handsome mulatto boy who was rejected for adoption by both black and white families because he was not their own kind. Everywhere he turned, Braithwaite encountered racial prejudice. But he was willing to fight for what he believed in, and he believed in Roddy. Writing with great power, warmth, and a deep belief in human dignity and worth, Braithwaite offers a heartbreaking yet hopeful look into a society's attempt to care for its youngest, most vulnerable citizens.

“A kind of social worker’s journal, offering intimate glimpses into troubled lives but without jargon or tortured psychoanalytic interpretations” —The New York Times Book Review
“Paid Servant adds to Mr. Braithwaite’s stature. . . . Absorbing to read and skilfully composed.” —The Times Literary Supplement “Warm but never sentimental.” —Booklist

In the year 1912, E.R.Braithwaite was born in British Guiana (now Guyana). He received his education at City College of New York and the University of Cambridge, and he served in the Royal Air Force during WWII. Braithwaite lived in London from 1950 to 1960, first as a schoolteacher and subsequently as a welfare worker, as chronicled in his books To Sir, With Love and Paid Servant. Guyana's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations was appointed to him in 1966. He was also a professor of English at New York University's Institute for Afro-American Affairs, a creative writing instructor at Howard University, and the author of five nonfiction works and two novels. At the age of 104, he died in 2016.

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ISBN 13	9781480457713
ISBN 10	148045771X
Title	Paid Servant
Author	E R Braithwaite
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Open Road Media
Year published	2014-01-14
Number of pages	278
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