The Oppression of African American Women in the United States

Despite having so much to offer the country, the society and the nation have never appreciated them since they are black and female. No matter how intelligent or dazzling they may be, the state is yet to understand them and embrace them to the mainstream by white Americans. However, African American women are not the only oppressed women in the United States Latinas, Native American and Asian American women are also subjected to the oppressive social relations. However, this review will be highlighting African American women and some of the disturbing and discriminative events they undergo while in America. Factors related to inequality and oppression of African American Women in the United States. Americans are stereotypic about African American women and that is why they are always treated inferior to their white counterparts.

Ways in which power is used to initiate, maintain and enforce oppression on African American Women in the United States. Usually, some of the oppressive challenges black women undergo are caused by powerful societal figures and people who discriminate these women by providing instances and situations which force them to bend to their will. The society is made of powerful social institutions such as the government, law enforcement, the workforce and even the media (Smith & Andrea 404). Some initiative instance includes powerful forces such as the workforce, who might be discriminative against black women and give them low wages or no wages at all. These are some of the things that the vulnerable women have managed to accomplish in the United States despite having grown in a society that treated them inferior to white women.