Examples Of Race Gender And Social Norms In Their Eyes Were Watching God

Race, Gender, and Social Norms In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston it focused on a woman named Janie who was on the quest of finding true love. Hurston made sure she included the realities of the era in which the book was written which is the 1900’s. Hurston made sure to include issues like race, gender, and social norms into Janie’s life and everything and everyone that was around her. Janie was born a mulatto meaning she is of the black and white race, she was very different from everyone else because of her physical traits, and she received jealousy from the women, and lust and desire from the men. Although Janie was beautiful, she was also a woman so therefore she was taken advantage of by the men she was with.

White people went against the true description of Jesus that was written in the bible, they used this to their advantage because Africans were naïve to the evil doings of the whites. The Europeans took advantage of this their cluelessness because they saw that they were starting to have a great influence on them. Some of the Africans who accepted Jesus started to see white people as the superior because of the out of the world being they began to worship. White supremacy continued even after white people had shipped millions of Africans to other parts of the world. In cities like Belgium, Barcelona, Poland, and New York City white people put black into human zoos where they can be fetish over black people (Schofield “Human Zoos: When real people were exhibits”). Exhibits that displayed a black woman with curves and elongated labia were fantasized over by white men. There were Negro villages in France that dehumanized blacks and compared then to other animals like

There were many organizations that were working for women’s rights but it was only for white women. After years of struggling it was not until 1920 that all women of different skin tones were able to vote in America (Tolnay 17). During the 1900’s black women were starting to take charge of their lives, many of them moved away from the rural south to urban cities where they can find better jobs. Some African American women were very involved during the women’s suffrage times. A group of black women created organizations like the Alpha Suffrage club of Chicago, there were also suffrage marches organized by Alice Paul’s congressional union in a segregated manner (Tolnay 20). African American women began to take more control of their lives, more activists were formed hair dressers, founders of various colleges, musicians, poets, sororitiesand many