The 1950's: The African American Housewife

The life of a typical slave and/or servant of a white home owner could be described as living with little to no pay, receiving disrespect from the home owners, and lack of freedom. Aibileen Clark from the book “The Help” is a maid that has experienced first hand the everyday life of being a servant to Elizabeth Leefolt. Mrs. Leefolt was documented as a racist who seemed not to care about any servant’s issues being dealt with during the 60’s such as segregation, insolence, humiliation, and alienation. Alienation can be defined as a withdrawing or separation of a group due to a trait that they seem to possess. The author Kathryn Stocket provided many events where alienation was shown throughout that book, for example: when Mrs. Hilly (one of Mrs. Leefolt’s friends) wanted to pass a law enforcing African Americans to have their own restrooms built outside due to the fact that she believed that “Negras” (as they called the maids in the book) carry certain diseases that could be caught by Caucasians.

They were a great one for sympathy and pity.They could not be seen as buyers or sellers or creating or settling an establishment. She was illustrated as a dark-skinned with a strong body and thick lips and sometimes ugly. She was the mother figure or more like mother earth, stronger than her man and less feminine than white women. She made more progress in comparison to other women because of her effort and devotion and loyalty to the masters. Statistics showed that during 1880 and 1915, between twenty-five and thirty percent of black families were conducted by the

Adah doubts about the hospital’s neglected treatment towards her son. She wonders if the hospital is just meant for second-class people (1974:60). Stigma as social process linked to the production of inequality and exclusion. The tribal stigma of race is one of dominant in Emecheta’s book. For author, the experience and the subject position of black people in Britain are defined by their race.

The main protagonist Delia is a African-American women which is the wife to an abusive man named Sykes who abuses her physically and mentally while committing infidelity. Delia is shown as an obedient wife due to how women didn’t really have power in the house hold in the time period of the early 1900’s most logically at 1920. Delia is subjugated to working as a maid due to the fact that African American women didn’t have as many job opportunities as African American men

You are a woman and you are not allowed to go to school! Was the biggest unnecessary thing for women, they were not allowed to go to school because men though that they could not do other jobs except being housewife. This idea was entirely wrong because women have proven over and over again that they are capable of doing everything that a man can. They are equal to men because they are human and there is not any extra ability that a man has in comparison. All around the world, women were not even allowed to vote because men thought that they did not know anything about politics and were not able to make such complicated decisions.

Her premise is that no one can have a decent living while working for minimum wage, and I agree it 's very difficult. But she believed that before she started her experiment, and I don 't think she learned anything new from her ventures in the world of low paying jobs. She only investigated for facts that confirmed what she already believed, and in the end, she continued placing blame on the workers who probably feel imprisoned in a condition they don 't know how to leave. I personally, have worked for a minimum wage job and I can definitely say that it’s hard to live and do what you desire to do. However, living off minimum wage is possible if you have great time management and money management.

My source claims that poverty is a big problem in certain countries, yet most people aren't doing anything about it, they're too focused on themselves. Banksy claims that society is selfish and ungrateful. Mondays have become a big thing to be mad about anywhere, society seems to hate waking up early and doing work, yet in other countries people are dying due to lack of clean food. An argument that is linked with Idols of the tribe is society feeling like nothing is enough. Society feels that having to do tasks is just plain boring and makes life bad.

In Desiree’s Baby, by Kate Chopin, the story deals with race issues and what a difference it makes in the lives of the characters. Although a person has no choice in what color their skin is, it makes a huge difference in their social class and how others treat them. Women had very little if any say so in their lives in even the smallest of matters. Women were at the mercy of the men in their families to make almost every decision for them and there were dire results if the men did not have their best interests at heart. The slaves had it the hardest of all because they had even less control over their lives and were even more venerable to the plantation owners and any free person.

82). Even as “[women] manipulated the machinery of war,” men doubted them and they gained little respect (Bradley, 1944, p. 75). The belief that women were not capable of such labor permeated the workplaces and drove them even harder (Bradley, 1944, p. 83). Women working in the “Acoustics and Special Problems Division of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory at the Washington Naval Yard [came] about as close as any women to going to sea with the Navy” (Bradley, 1944, p. 78). Even though these women served alongside men in Key West, New London, Miami, and Narragansett Bay they were not allowed onto naval ships because of their sex.

“There were no protections at the time for women in the workplace, meaning they could be fired simply for being a woman without unemployment or severance. Working women also had no guarantee of equal wages or treatment (Beach).” Men and society did not protect women during this time. There was a lot of great women

Blacks depended on whites for everything they needed, because without the money from the white people,black people couldn’t accomplish anything. Although black slaves were freed, they were really held down to the point where slavery might have been better option. As to being free and poor, black people starved to death, while living on a plantation food was provided for them. Race was a major setback in little Moody’s life. She was never afforded the nice clothes and food that white had due to her being in continuous poverty.

Frintrop stated that “African American female slaves living in bondage had no hope to live up to this status” (Frintrop 2). Although women living in the north did not support slavery, they knew nothing about it and the real experiences of slaves, particularly women living and working there. Harriet Jacobs wanted to attach the attention of those people to the problem of slavery promoting its abolition and struggling for effective actions and more right for people in the South. Even though there were many differences between the North and the South, there was one common problem faced by women there, such as patriarchy. In fact, women were historically subordinate to men, but this subordination brought much trouble and suffering to women in slave