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“Am I Not a Woman”: The Myth of the Strong Black Woman

Kusi, Carolyn Amelia
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1263223895

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2010, Master of Liberal Studies, University of Toledo, College of Arts and Sciences.
Black women have struggled for years to live within the confines of historical and traditional expectations. Many Black women’s earliest memories are of being abused and being told that their sole purpose in life is for the benefit of their families, communities, churches, and masters. For generations Black women, as an historical category, have lived a silent existence while pushing back their pain, emotions, and fear. In the early 1800s Sojourner Truth’s challenges and hurdles in the early 1800s vastly resembles that of a woman in 2009. She was faced with the worst kinds of racism, sexism and hate-ism, but her mission for righteousness prevailed anyway. This thesis will examine narratives of personal experience, historical data, and previous research studies, within a theoretical framework, to demonstrate and deconstruct the myth of a Strong Black Women.
Jamie Barlowe, PhD (Committee Chair)
Lawrence Anderson, PhD (Advisor)
88 p.
African Americans
African American women; Black women; Strong Black Woman; myths; slavery; silence

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  • Kusi, C. A. (2010). “Am I Not a Woman”: The Myth of the Strong Black Woman [Master's thesis, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1263223895

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kusi, Carolyn. “Am I Not a Woman”: The Myth of the Strong Black Woman. 2010. University of Toledo, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1263223895.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kusi, Carolyn. "“Am I Not a Woman”: The Myth of the Strong Black Woman." Master's thesis, University of Toledo, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1263223895

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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