Black Women During The Black Arts Movement Essay

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Women have gone through so many problems and hardships throughout their history. Black women in particular have had to face many more challenges throughout their history. Not to take away from the white women and the hardships they faced, black women have dealt with the same and more issues due to their race. Throughout the history of women, they have not gotten paid as much as men, were targeted more for sexual violence, were not treated with equal respect, and were not treated fairly at all. Black women, on top of all of those hardships, had to deal with their race and the issues that their race brought upon them. Black women during the Black arts movement, faced even more hardships. They were held back, used by their body image to be disrespected, were …show more content…

Women in general faced many hardships in the past and especially during the black arts movement. Women were disvalued and were the lowest in the society. They had some of the toughest jobs and worked very hard to provide for their kids. Throughout this essay there are three sources to support and display what women went through during the black arts movement. These sources are, “The Negro Woman in American Literature,” “Woman Poem,” and “Wine in the Wilderness.” All of these sources add critical information to help support the thoughts on how women were treated during the black arts movement and what they faced on a daily basis. Overall during the black arts movement women were involved in lots of art to display their sexual characteristics. Women faced many issues like being disrespected and not being given an equal opportunity. Lastly, the black arts movement really brought out the way that women were treated and displayed the terrible things that artists did to them in society, which caused more problems in their

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