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Miss Adele Amidst the Corsets
Smith, Zadie. “Miss Adele Amidst the Corsets.” The Paris Review, Spring 2014, parisreview.com.
The article is about the survival tactics needed in New York, citing examples from “Miss Adele Amidst the Corset” short story. Miss Adele was a protagonist signifying the impact of the tough city on an individual. While living in the American cities, she had to struggle to survive since the minorities were being oppressed due to their transsexual gender and being African Americans. Some people refuse to see transgender people as people deserving of equal rights. Instead, they continuously seek to demonize others as perverts, sinners, disgusting, less than human, worthy of death, pedophiles, and their servants. And those religious zealots then push their chosen political leaders into trying to pass legislation that will criminalize everyday activities. They push those legislators into passing more laws to erase American transexual women from society and to repeal what few hard-won legal protections they might have. The same applies in the case of Miss Adele; as her body kept on aging, she was frustrated, especially at work with the energetic young people. Black women are affected by intersectionality differently than white women. Being both black and a woman puts them at many disadvantages in society; in contrast, white women can offset some of their disadvantages by virtue of being white. In fact, whiteness is such a huge advantage, that even being gay or transgender still puts them on a better footing in society than cishet black women.
IYER, NIRANJANA. “Women’s March on Washington: Millions Worldwide Rally to Protest Trump.” Herizons, vol. 30, no. 4, Spring 2017, pp. 6–8. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=123363559&site=ehost-live.
In the article, the authors conduct an overview of Women’s March, which is considered to be one of the massive protests within American history, which was against Donald Trump, the U.S. presidential inauguration in 2017 in Washington. The protects were against the point of view of the president on issues regarding transgender rights, the reproductive women rights and oppression of African-American citizens. The article is essential since it serves as actions of collective feminist of the elected U.S. President towards political agenda.
DEWART BELL, JANET. “Lighting the Fires of Freedom.” Nation, vol. 306, no. 15 May 2018, pp. 18–21. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=129291275&site=ehost-live.
In the article, the author discusses the role of women, specifically African Americans, towards the civil rights movement within the United States. The author focuses on Myrlie Evers, the leader of civil rights. Additionally, the work of Judy Richardson, an activist in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), is addressed. The article is relevant in the sense that there has been an increased rate of African American women facing oppression within the United States. However, the introduction of the civil rights Movement aims at advocating for women’s rights.
Jasim, Muhannad Hassan, and Lajiman Janoory. “Oppression and Emancipation of African American Women in Suzan Lori Parks’ Venus.” International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 7.7 (2018): 142-147.
In the article, the authors explore challenges experienced by African American women in terms of suppression and oppression amongst western societies. Additionally, it explores the efforts they make to prevent dehumanization and oppression. The article utilizes the theory of postcolonial feminist of Subaltern in examining the intrinsic and extrinsic analysis of African American women. The article is relevant as it explores the racial discrimination within the United States and how it can be prevented.
