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African-American female literature

African American female literature is an educational tool used in America by women of the African descent. This use of education became very popular to African American women around the 18th century and is still constantly becoming more popular in the current 21 century. This use of education also became a platform for many African American women to speak out on their opinions that involve society and having to be a women in society. These opinions about society can very well be deemed as social problems. These authors are able to incorporate their ideas/views on society and able to demonstrate the use of literature within the African American culture. These societal issues that they have discussed in their books include: Racism, sexism, classism and social equality.

Authors

Ann Folwell Stanford

In the late nineteenth hundreds Ann Folwell Stanford was the author of the article “Mechanisms of disease: African-American women writers, Social Pathologies, and the Limits of Medicine” This article is about the several social problems that African-American women who dealt with literature were involved with, she also talks about personal problems and entangled with those particular social problems . These social problems were: sexism, racism and class-ism.

Barbara Christian

During 1988, Christian Barbara created a journal that discussed her viewpoints on issues that involved African-American and minorities when it came to entering the education aspect of literature. She further describes this issue as being a block between the non-minorities and the minorities who both master in literature. She names this issue the "minority disclosure". Later on in this journal Christian talks about minority disclosure and how her being a feminist and African-American divides her from the literacy conversation due to racial and social constructs of society. She also states that due to the diversity in the world of literature she results this as being a stand of political power meaning that the government has something to do with the control within the education of literacy.

Christina M. Capodilupo and Suah Kim

This was a Co-written article published in 2014. The main purpose of this article was to talk about Gender and race within the African-American culture. They discussed how African-American females have been portrayed and modeled due to society. some of the issues expressed with this is many African-American females have developed mental illness and become insecure. also according to the article they've been told non-verbally by society to look like there counter-partners or white women. They even came to the conclusion of saying African-American males have influenced African-American females to change their image\body image.