Black Women's Studies By Beverly Guy-Sheftall
In the article titled Black Women’s Studies: The Interface of Women’s Studies and Black Studies Beverly Guy-Sheftall writes about different topics concerning Black Studies and Women Studies. In the title the word Interface means how people interact and view something, for example a computer screen. Beverly Guy-Sheftall writes about how Black women in particular see Black Studies as an interface. Beverly Guy-Sheftall states, “… the unique experiences of black women in America and throughout the world” (Guy-Sheftall 181). What is being stated is that how black women as a whole are a different group of people based on the experiences that they have had throughout history. This thought about black women gave reason to why black women studies needed
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Toni Cade was a black woman herself and her writing included stories from black women that talked about the problems they faced day to day. In other words, it was a way that black women were able to get their voices heard. Toni writes, “you see, my whole life is tied up to unhappiness it’s father cooking breakfast and me getting as fat as a hog or having no food at all and father proving his incompetence again I wish I knew how it would feel to be free” (Cade 13). This shows what most black women would go through, as Toni writes based on what the women told her, as a young lady growing into adulthood. That was one of the many stories that Toni writes to be able get, like I stated previously, the voices of the black women heard by other people. Another perspective of this situation takes us to the writing of Anna Julia Cooper. Her writing takes place in 1892, years after the slaves were set free, which was one of the first works that address the problems concerning black women after the slaves were set free. Anna gives, “And not many can more sensibly realize and more accurately tell the weight and the fret of the ‘long dull pain’ than the open-eyed but hitherto voiceless Black Woman of America” (Cooper
Toni Cade was a black woman herself and her writing included stories from black women that talked about the problems they faced day to day. In other words, it was a way that black women were able to get their voices heard. Toni writes, “you see, my whole life is tied up to unhappiness it’s father cooking breakfast and me getting as fat as a hog or having no food at all and father proving his incompetence again I wish I knew how it would feel to be free” (Cade 13). This shows what most black women would go through, as Toni writes based on what the women told her, as a young lady growing into adulthood. That was one of the many stories that Toni writes to be able get, like I stated previously, the voices of the black women heard by other people. Another perspective of this situation takes us to the writing of Anna Julia Cooper. Her writing takes place in 1892, years after the slaves were set free, which was one of the first works that address the problems concerning black women after the slaves were set free. Anna gives, “And not many can more sensibly realize and more accurately tell the weight and the fret of the ‘long dull pain’ than the open-eyed but hitherto voiceless Black Woman of America” (Cooper