African American Women 's Status Of African Americans

In 1865, slavery was abolished, by the Thirteenth amendment. This Amendment brought humongous changes and a large number of problems. (Lecture 1) After the destruction of slavery, it left nearly four million African American with no property, little training, and few rights; which made the definition of freedom for African Americans the central question on the nation’s agenda. The big question of the time period was, “what was freedom for African Americans?” (Give me liberty! An American 550)

Being an African-American female I have been faced with many obstacles in life. These obstacles have consisted of being faced with stereotypes because of my gender and race. Despite these challenges I have learned to always embrace my ethnicity and culture, and use these stereotypes as motivation to not only better myself as a person, but to prove those who doubted me wrong.

This paper discusses the experiences of African American Women under slavery during the Slave Trade, their exploitation, the secrecy, the variety of tasks and positions of slave women, slave and ex-slave narratives, and significant contributions to history. Also, this paper presents the hardships African American women faced and the challenges they overcame to become equal with men in today’s society. Slavery was a destructive experience for African Americans especially women. Black women suffered doubly during the slave era.

Besides all the other growing issues from 1700-1800 in American History, there was one rising above all. The enslavement of the African people. While there was much debate about freedom, abolition, and all other things some African-Americans managed to find theirs. From 1775 to 1830 many African-Americans gained freedom by escaping to regions in which slavery wasn’t practiced or by purchasing it if granted while all at the same time the expansion of slavery greatly expanded in the American south. Free or enslaved, African-American were under constant oppression and were driven to take action towards the challenges they were faced with. While some looked to religion to escape these hardships, others looked to violence in which they believed

The developments on American’s society greatly fluctuated as women and African Americans fought for equal rights. Black men and women have fought for rights in America since the beginning of slavery throughout the country. Once the Civil War ended parts of the government stepped in to help. The Freedmen’s Bureau was one of the first federal organizations which held out a hand. “It was the first federal experiment in providing assistance directly to the people rather than to states.” (Shi and Tindall, pg. 515) The Freedmen’s Bureau set schools for African Americans throughout former confederate states. Soon after the birth of the Freedmen’s Bureau, black men gained the right to vote through the Fifteenth Amendment. Even through the federal assistance African Americans still were not close to equality. The African Methodist Episcopal was the first institution which former slaves could control, the black ministers were seen as social and political leaders as well as preachers (pg. 523) The first real sign of freedom

The subpopulation of the southeastern United States that I am identifying is the African-American Woman. I chose this topic because it relates to me the most being that I am an African American woman. The five most important health concerns for the African- American Woman subpopulation are breast cancer, High blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, overweight and obesity, and mental health issues (depression). African-American woman have the most, and most of the time the largest, differences in health risks when compared to other minority groups. African-American woman have the most disease, disability, and early death as well. A lot of these early deaths are caused by such late detection of the many diseases

Overview: Men make more money the women doing the same job, even though, women hold 70% of jobs (Flander, p. 20-22). For every dollar a white man makes women make 77 cents, black women make 64 cents, and Latinas make 56 cents, that’s just for independant women, women with families make even less than that.

Although, on paper, African American women had the same rights as white women, prejudices often got in the way of African American women actually enjoying these basic human rights. However, “for the bulk of salve women located on southern plantations, the war entailed both physical suffering and great latitude for personal action” (Block, Alexander, and Norton 127).

African-American women have been neglected historical recognition during the primitive and the final stages of North American slavery. Historians like Stanley Elkins, John Blassingame, Robert Fogel, Stanley Engerman, Eugene Genovese, and Herbert Gutman have had a profound influence on research that uncovers the experiences of slaves in the antebellum South. Yet, these historians have only done so through the centered analysis of enslaved black men – this review will focus on two stereotypes and solidarity of women. Ar’n’t I A Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South by Deborah Gray White provides an examination of female slavery, in which, she analyzes the situation of the most vulnerable group of antebellum Americans: the uniqueness of African-American female crossroads that exercise two of the most well developed ideologies in America, that regarding women and that regarding the Negro (White, 26). The author places the context of such analysis in the speech “Ar’n’t I a Woman?” from former slave Sojourner Truth. In doing so, White hopes to reveal historical contributions by African-American women during slavery. Additionally, White strives to surface illustrations of unique struggles enslaved women encountered to evince the historic racism and sexism that structured womanhood in order to answer a confident and assertive “yes” to the persistent question: “Ar’n’t I a woman?” (White, 190) – White strives to prove her thesis, which states that an overdue examination of

With society changing who African American woman are on the outside has created internalized oppression on the inside. Nevertheless, causing African American woman to hate their selves and believing they are ugly, because they don’t possess the image in which society has set as norm. An American America women wants “ to be completely dedicated to their culture without considering other cultures values or beliefs;” “to be who they are and to be proud of it”; “to wear garments, living life, and having dread locks; to wear dreads and froes and be natural.” (Cokely, 2002) She has to wake up every day and be who society tells her is acceptable. Society therefore is sending out messages of false hope to the African American women in corporate America. Research has shown that African America that have endorse these stereotyped roles have lower self-esteem them women who resist the stigma.(cite) With society marginalization African American women it as a result keeps the white man in charge of who gets to work in what part of the company. Therefore, as I would say robbing them of their energy and creativity in corporate America.

The problem that will be studied is one of intra-minority intergroup relations and essentially ‘what it takes’ for White feminists to become allies with, and act in solidarity with African American feminists. The relationship between the two groups will be examined. African American feminists and White feminists are disadvantaged on one shared identity dimension, sex, but differ on another, race. While African American feminists and White feminists may share experiences of perceived sexism, but it cannot be dually claimed about racism. The key variables include closeness, salience of personally faced discrimination, the salience of racial discrimination as faced by African Americans, how White feminist allies are perceived by African American

African American women that deal with various stressors are more likely to have negative birth outcomes. The onset of depressive symptoms most likely to occur around 20 and 40 years of age in pregnant women (Molina and Kiely, 2011). Furthermore, intimate partner violence was associated with depressive symptoms. Additionally, substance use such as smoking and alcohol use was associated with depressive symptoms in pregnant women. Additionally, the loss of a child from stillbirth or miscarriage associated with loss contributed to depressive symptoms. Similarly, Kim et al. (2013) demonstrates patients with antenatal depression is common in African American women who are single which increases risk for birth outcomes (p. 480). The adverse effect

African American/Black women have early history experiences different from those of other women as well as different from the experiences of African American/Black men. Occupation, educational background and environment in which people develop profoundly shapes the direction in which their career path with follow. To effectively comprehend the one of a kind position and uniqueness of African American/Black women in corporate America, their difficulties and victories, and their attending capacity to impact change, a few pieces of writing were investigated. This literature review first examines leadership literature as well as reflects on the deficiency of persons of color, African American/Black women specifically. Continuing in this same

Literature review conducted focused on topics such as beauty and body image pertaining to African American women. Researchers looked at past studies where researchers did comparison studies between African American women and women from other ethnic groups, specifically White women. Notably, during literature review, researchers were unable to gather empirical data about differences within beauty and body image.

In January of 1865, the thirteenth amendment was passed which abolished slavery freeing four million African American slaves. Since they were not owned by another person anymore, they had more rights than they did as slaves, which was not very difficult considering slaves essentially had no rights. None the less, any bit of freedom was understandably, important to African Americans. However, freedom from slavery in America is very different from equality in America and many people, even today, think that the freedom of slavery for African American’s insinuated overall equality in America. While the passing of the 13ththamendment was a pivotal step in the free country that America is today, African Americans being freed from slavery does not mean that they are free from everything else.