Sentences with phrase «reality as a black woman»

Coursework has helped me to reflect on how my educational experiences have largely been detached from my social reality as a black woman from a socioeconomically disadvantaged background.

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In the writings of black women one glimpses their fundamental experience of functioning as the «reality principle» for the entire race.

A decade ago, a character like her would've sprouted a garden of think pieces and handwringing about the long history of representation of black women as loud, no - nonsense, and mean, the fictional equivalent to the Tiffany Pollards and NeNe Leakes of the reality TV world.

And as Atlantic Monthly «s Conor Friedersdorf declared last month in a piece on police brutality, no conservative or liberal, much less a moral human being, can ignore the pressing need to seriously address the reality that there are police officers acting as thugs against people of all backgrounds — especially young black men and women — under the guise of enforcing the law.

The reality is that slavery existed and when told in such a light as The Healing - women of today - can powerfully relate to black women of yesterday who struggled and tried always to provide the wisdom of being a woman.

In her exploration of the aesthetic and political realities of black culture, the author examines the figure of Hammons and the role of the African - American women artists as central in the expression of the black consciousness.