부산대학교 도서관

Possibly the first published short story by an African American woman, “The Two Offers” exposes how sexism structures all American society. None of the characters are racialized, they straddle classes, and they speak in the highly sentimentalized diction of mid-century women in domestic fiction. Solidarity between women is a major theme of the story. The short poem “Aunt Chloe’s Politics” is a black feminist critique of political corruption in the aftermath of the Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which extended the franchise to black men.