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  • The Magic Negro in a movie or a show is a house-maid, coming in from the ghetto to clean a house that is not theirs, in an all-white neighbourhood where all too many houses have such servants.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Lowest income per person in Yangon is just Ks. 15, 000 (Fifteen Thousands Kyats only) for unskill full-time house-maid.

    Global Voices in English » Myanmar: New policy requires HIV groups to register 2009

  • The Magic Negro in a movie or a show is a house-maid, coming in from the ghetto to clean a house that is not theirs, in an all-white neighbourhood where all too many houses have such servants.

    A Sodomite's Sermon Hal Duncan 2009

  • I sent the house-maid for the police and put the investi - gation into their hands at once.

    Sole Music 2010

  • The Magic Negro in a work of fiction is a house-maid, coming in from the ghetto to clean a house that is not theirs, in an all-white neighbourhood where all too many houses have such servants.

    Notes from New Sodom: To the Water-Fountains by Hal Duncan 2009

  • When the children saw that, they also decided to fast with their parents and so did the house-maid, Fiddha.

    Archive 2009-07-01 photographerno1 2009

  • Mimi, a house-maid from the Philippines, was denounced by the wife of Karin's lover.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Konopka worked briefly as a house-maid until, with the help of refugee committees, the couple were resettled in Pittsburgh.

    Gisela Peiper Konopka. 2009

  • Mimi, a house-maid from the Philippines, was denounced by the wife of Karin's lover.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • But, while settling how to act, after her sister had left her, she was struck with hearing the name of Mandlebert pronounced by Mary, the house-maid, who was talking with Molly Mill upon the landing place.

    Camilla 2008

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