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SLAVE TRADE AND DEHUMANIZATION OF AFROAMERICAN WOMEN IN GYASIS HOMEGOING A BLACK FEMINIST STUDY

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2022(VII-IV).05      10.31703/gssr.2022(VII-IV).05      Published : Dec 2022

Slave Trade and Dehumanization of Afro-American Women in Gyasi’s Homegoing: A Black Feminist Study

Abstract

    In this article, bell books' ground-breaking black feminist approach is adopted to examine the lingering impact of slave trade of Afro-American women in contemporary America. Slavery in the past stigmatized the present lives of Afro-American women. Even though slavery was abolished, the terrible effects of the slave trade continue to demean, degrade, and caricature black women in the western world of today. hooks' radical black feminist ideas
    reveal how racial discrimination and sexual orientation towards black women rob them of their social identity and place in white supremacist society. This research critiques all the forms of dehumanization black women experience in the white world starting with historical enslavement and ending in the present dehumanization. In the white media, theatre, music, literature, and other disciplines, black women are presented as sexy, bold, aggressive, hypersexual, angry, impatient, violent, macho, insensitive, incompetent, and lazy. The contemporary lives of Afro-American women are being plagued by the effects of the slave trade in the white world.

    (1) Sana Zafar
    Lecturer, Department of English, Shiblee Group of Colleges, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Ghulam Murtaza
    Professor, Department of English Literature, Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Saira Zaheer
    Teacher, Department of English, Government Girls Primary School Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Zafar, S., Murtaza, G., & Zaheer, S. (2022). Slave Trade and Dehumanization of Afro-American Women in Gyasi’s Homegoing: A Black Feminist Study. Global Social Sciences Review, VII(IV), 39-47. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2022(VII-IV).05

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Zafar, Sana, Ghulam Murtaza, and Saira Zaheer. 2022. "Slave Trade and Dehumanization of Afro-American Women in Gyasi’s Homegoing: A Black Feminist Study." Global Social Sciences Review, VII (IV): 39-47 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2022(VII-IV).05

HARVARD

    HARVARD : ZAFAR, S., MURTAZA, G. & ZAHEER, S. 2022. Slave Trade and Dehumanization of Afro-American Women in Gyasi’s Homegoing: A Black Feminist Study. Global Social Sciences Review, VII, 39-47.

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    MHRA : Zafar, Sana, Ghulam Murtaza, and Saira Zaheer. 2022. "Slave Trade and Dehumanization of Afro-American Women in Gyasi’s Homegoing: A Black Feminist Study." Global Social Sciences Review, VII: 39-47

MLA

    MLA : Zafar, Sana, Ghulam Murtaza, and Saira Zaheer. "Slave Trade and Dehumanization of Afro-American Women in Gyasi’s Homegoing: A Black Feminist Study." Global Social Sciences Review, VII.IV (2022): 39-47 Print.

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    OXFORD : Zafar, Sana, Murtaza, Ghulam, and Zaheer, Saira (2022), "Slave Trade and Dehumanization of Afro-American Women in Gyasi’s Homegoing: A Black Feminist Study", Global Social Sciences Review, VII (IV), 39-47

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Zafar, Sana, Ghulam Murtaza, and Saira Zaheer. "Slave Trade and Dehumanization of Afro-American Women in Gyasi’s Homegoing: A Black Feminist Study." Global Social Sciences Review VII, no. IV (2022): 39-47. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2022(VII-IV).05