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Black And White Black Women
1,268 words... mes from a much smaller pool than did men, the pool of black names had a diversity to begin with only eventually matched by white families who added new names their intermarriages. That black women shared the same names more frequently than black men parallels the pattern of the white community. Slave names were more diminutive of white names, for example Betty for Elizabeth. White women also were known by diminutive names such as Sally, Patsy, and Nancy. Diminutives were share by both black...
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Male Heir Southern Women
1,041 wordsbelieve that the Stupen experience embodied the sense of defeat that most southerners felt after the war. The basic ideals and spirit of southern life was destroyed by the war and never to be fully restored again. Their lives were turned upside down by the war and afterwards they did not even have the solace of their previous social status to return to. During the war many people were faced with unthinkable hardships on every level. The myth of the helpless southern woman was replaced by the ima...
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York Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company
1,805 wordsClintons presents the realities of lives of plantation mistresses their activities as wives, mothers and household managers. The most important contribution that Clinton makes, however, is in showing how the institution of slavery affected all aspects of southern womens lives. Southern attitudes towards marital fidelity, abortion, and birth control were all conditioned by plantation owners need for both heirs (white) and workers (blacks or mostly so). The author warns readers not to replace one ...
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Left With No Answer Answer To Her Question Misfit
898 wordsThe grandmother is based on conventional Southern women. She dresses in her Sunday best so that noone would be mistaken as to her status as a lady, an issue at the heart of every true Southern woman. She related stories of old mansions and of the little 'pickaninny' by a door. This was not a racial comment because for it to be there would have to be an intent to insult an African American and there was not. This was written to further convey the notion of her embodying all the true characteristi...
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Sweat By Zora Neale Hurston
2,263 wordsSweat by Zora Neale Hurston Introduction Issues concerning women have been present in African American literature since ancient times. It was not just a case: African American women have always been preoccupied with the problems of men and women, family, gender roles, moral choices, good and evil, closely related to African American writers have been looked upon as possible to provide the answers for the questions. Sweat, Hurston's best short story about a womans struggle for survival, is a perf...
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