ABSTRACT
African Americans have been subjected to and have fought against an economic, political, and social system that, from its inception, attempted to devalue their humanity and deny them the fruits of their labor. African American women have labored under a double yoke of race and gender oppression. Recent scholarship shows that African American women have had a “clear understanding that race issues and women’s issues were inextricably linked, that one could not separate women’s struggle from race struggle.” Thus, the history of African American women has been informed by this duality, and this has triggered an increasing output of sociohistorical research focused on the parameters of race combined with gender.
