Rural Black Culture

The definition of a woman depends on one’s ideology’s, upbringing, cultural beliefs, and morals. The journey of womanhood is a struggle, but for these women in coloured communities, it is a constant battle of competing with their societies norm and gender roles. In comparison, it has been proven that Caucasian people are very privileged economically, socially, physically, etc. Statistically it is shown that due to lack of human resource, communities of colour are suffering. New world blacks have been studied for many years, however it is rare for one of the most oppressed groups in the world, adolescent black females, to be looked at from an anthropological perspective. Molly Crocker Dougherty’s book “Becoming a Woman in Rural Black Culture” discovers the impact of community, kinship, and the rite of passage for adolescent women and the affects it has on the their future as women in society.

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Separation is exactly how it sounds as they are detaching from an earlier status in their social structure as well as not continuing certain behaviours. The second phase is intervening, also known as the transition phase. The girls gradually make behaviour and lifestyle changes.The final phase is called incorporation, which ultimately means the girls have made a comfortable switch and are more content in the state they are in. The transitional phase if by far the most difficult as their role doe not have as much structure compared to others. Typically their role involves housekeeping, courtship, and peer groups withing the community.During Adolescence in Edge Crossing, there are three additional phases of the rite of passage; pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood which happen shortly after the first few. Athough these stages play a critical role in these women’s lives, the researchers primary focus was the transition phase as that is where the most dramatic change is