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Focus on Social Status of African Americans in the United States of America

Journal: International Journal of English, Literature and Social Science (Vol.10, No. 3)

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Page : 219-223

Keywords : African Americans; slavery; social status; stratification; bourgeois status;

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Abstract

Africans are brought into the United States of America by slave traders and are sold to the white people as slaves. Slave masters used the black people to work in the plantation and to do all sorts of other odd jobs. The black people served the white people for more than three centuries and have gone through different odd situations in their real life. They have historically faced significant socioeconomic disparities. At present a significant number of African Americans attained bourgeois status. Dorothy West, the last leaf of Harlem Renaissance highlighted social status of African Americans in the United States of America. Going through works of Dorothy West highlighted social status of African Americans in this article.

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