I haven't read or thought about that poem for many years.
Being a slave meant suffering treatment that was sub-human. Yet all around her were "ladies", white women of standing, dressed nice, and treated like delicate personas deserving of preference and service. So she points out, "ain't I a woman?", to draw attention to the fact that color doesn't make her any less than the females around her getting preferential treatment. In fact, she deserved more than the average white woman of her time.
2007-03-28 04:24:41
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answered by Zeera 7
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She argues that the convergence of sexism and racism during slavery contributed to black women having the lowest status and worst conditions of any group in American society
Further, she argues that the stereotypes that were set during slavery still affect black women today. She argues that slavery allowed white society to stereotype white women as the pure goddess virgin and move black women to the seductive whore stereotype formerly placed on all women. This has allowed the justification of the devaluation of black femininity and rape which continues to this day. The work which black women have been forced to perform, either in slavery or in a discriminatory work place, that would be non-gender conforming for white women has been used against black women as a proof of their emasculating behaviour.
2007-03-28 04:26:42
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answered by Anonymous
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2016-12-19 15:41:38
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answered by Anonymous
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