Social Limitations Placed on Black Women

1. Oppression

2. Social Status - black and white women had never the been the same

3. Discrimination - racial and sexual

4. Social Oppression -Several African American women were brought to the united states to work as slaves

5. gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, and age

6. The first was the exploitation of African American women’s free labor to increase the U.S. capital, which represented the economic form of oppression.

7. The right vote, to run for public office, to receive equal treatment in the criminal justice system, and to receive equal education.

8. Negative stereotypes that applied to African American women

9. Collins writes “Taken together, the supposedly seamless web of economy, polity, and ideology function as a highly effective system of social control designed to keep African American women in an assigned, subordinate place”.

10. Sexism

11. To a man if a woman was to take a leadership role the man would feel as if he is a failure because to a man, he is the one who should be in a leadership position and leading his people

12. One of the men at Brown’s speech shouted “I here we can’t call them bitches no more”.

13. Labor

14. Low Pay and High Risk Jobs

15. White women workers created a group to maintain the racial hierarchy that would grant themselves a higher status in the labor force than that of a black woman