In chapter 12 of Newman and the article “Black Women and a New Definition of Woman” by Bart Landry work to uncover the atrocities of patriarchy and sexism. While Newman provides a basis of sexism and all the different areas Women experience it. Bart, goes into the details of how Black women where objectified throughout Americas history and how sexism was different amongst Black people than it was for black people in America. Newman describes objectification as being the practice of treating people as objects (p.371). Bart speaks of how Black women were classily objectified from slavery in America where they where not only property but also seen as a means of sex for slave owners and child-bearers to produce more property and prosperity to
