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What is the "double-bind" that African- American women poets encountered in the thirties and forties, according to Anthony Walton's essay ?
Correct answer: B. Being a subordinated woman in a male dominated culture and a member of a suppressed minority race in the middle of a dominant white culture
- A. Being overworked in menial jobs having to raise large families
- B. Being a subordinated woman in a male dominated culture and a member of a suppressed minority race in the middle of a dominant white culture
- C. Having little formal education with little access to publishers
- D. Being ignored by a traditional poetry reading public because what they wrote about was the travails of subsistence living
Explanation
The double bind combined two forms of marginalization: these poets were women in a male-dominated culture and African Americans in a society structured by white racial power. Their literary position was therefore shaped by both gender and race.
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