Ain T I A Woman Analysis

Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism bell hooks, a social activist, feminist, and author, of Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism, goes into great detail of the burden sexism has had on black women during the late 1800s, when the women’s rights activists started to collaborate. Which is what formed the start of the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, the cause of racism within the women’s movement. Black women could not have been apart of the women’s movement. Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism, is universally seen as a response to, The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, a book about middle-class white women. The Feminine Mystique neglected minority women with lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and hooks calls Friedan out on this lack of information. Although, sexism and racism had blurred the understanding of a colored woman, hooks reminds the reader with an emphasizes on how sexism is equally important as to racism, and how much of an oppressive force both factors have caused black women to be seen as the lowest, and worst status of any group in American. …show more content…
Having black women slaves were used to serve as breeders, which made them the ideal target for torture, and dehumanization. The only dehumanization black men faced was not being able to become patriarchs. hooks states that this idea served only to support a sexistsocial order that white slave traders did not give any harm to the masculinity of black men they could have physically castrated all black men aboard slave ships, but they did not. Black women slaves were forced to obtain a masculine role. The concept of sexism was made to protect the male individuals and while black females were being