Black Feminism
Oppression
According to Nowell (2007), oppression is when individuals are treated to economic, political, cultural, or social degradation due to their “belonging” to a specific social group. Black women have struggled to live in two contrasting worlds concurrently, one black, oppressed, and exploited, the other white, oppressive, and privileged (Collins, 1999, p. 26). According to Collins (1999), they have continued to exist as significant because U.S. black women are still constituted as an oppressed group (p. 22). According to Black Feminism (2014), African American women are doubly discriminated against – one for being female, and another for being black - with a double burden on their shoulder for equality.
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5). During 1963-1974, white men were the highest earners and black men were the second highest earning group, even though black women completed more years of schooling than black men, and white women completed more schooling than white men (Nain, 1991, p. 7). This reveals that even though black men have completed the least schooling out of four groups (white men, white women, black men, and black women), they have managed to attain the second-highest …show more content…
106). According to Robbins, Chatterjee, & Canda (2012), coming out is the process when gay and lesbian individuals reveal their sexual orientations to themselves and others (p. 90). Coming out means to recognize and accept oneself, resolving internal struggles with sexuality, internally identifying one’s sexuality, and self-disclosing one’s sexual identity (Mosher, 2001, p. 164). In the journey of the internal exploration of sexuality in women transitioning from heterosexuality to lesbianism, women internally struggled with nonheterosexuality within societal expectations in a heterosexuality context (Mosher, 2001, p.166). Additionally, youth were rejected access to accurate information about nonheterosexuality with little opportunity to learn about the definition of being gay, lesbian, or bisexual (Dempsey, 1994, p. 161). According to Rosario et al. (1996), youth often proclaimed having a bisexual identity before they finalized on gay or lesbian identities because they were raised to societal expectations of
Oppression
According to Nowell (2007), oppression is when individuals are treated to economic, political, cultural, or social degradation due to their “belonging” to a specific social group. Black women have struggled to live in two contrasting worlds concurrently, one black, oppressed, and exploited, the other white, oppressive, and privileged (Collins, 1999, p. 26). According to Collins (1999), they have continued to exist as significant because U.S. black women are still constituted as an oppressed group (p. 22). According to Black Feminism (2014), African American women are doubly discriminated against – one for being female, and another for being black - with a double burden on their shoulder for equality.
The strain …show more content…
5). During 1963-1974, white men were the highest earners and black men were the second highest earning group, even though black women completed more years of schooling than black men, and white women completed more schooling than white men (Nain, 1991, p. 7). This reveals that even though black men have completed the least schooling out of four groups (white men, white women, black men, and black women), they have managed to attain the second-highest …show more content…
106). According to Robbins, Chatterjee, & Canda (2012), coming out is the process when gay and lesbian individuals reveal their sexual orientations to themselves and others (p. 90). Coming out means to recognize and accept oneself, resolving internal struggles with sexuality, internally identifying one’s sexuality, and self-disclosing one’s sexual identity (Mosher, 2001, p. 164). In the journey of the internal exploration of sexuality in women transitioning from heterosexuality to lesbianism, women internally struggled with nonheterosexuality within societal expectations in a heterosexuality context (Mosher, 2001, p.166). Additionally, youth were rejected access to accurate information about nonheterosexuality with little opportunity to learn about the definition of being gay, lesbian, or bisexual (Dempsey, 1994, p. 161). According to Rosario et al. (1996), youth often proclaimed having a bisexual identity before they finalized on gay or lesbian identities because they were raised to societal expectations of