new negro

The task of negro womanhood had a positive mood to it. It is more on the positive note rather the other things that we have read like Cane where it talks about women in a negative way. One thing i read in the passage by mcdougald speaks of African American women as "a colorful pageant of individuals, each differently endowed." That ever women has something to offer they are their own individual. That was very positive look at African American women and what they can offer. Unlike in Cane where all the women have bad things that they offer to men most of the time. Then after explaining that each individual women has something to offer she puts the women in groups of different working status. There four different groups leisure group the more fortunate ones that get to stay home. The next group which she speaks very highly of is the professional women. She thinks that teachers even though they don't get paid a lot they have a lot in their hands the "future". Another profession she speaks very highly of is the librarian she thinks that they can help the world to read and they can create branches everywhere. So looking at this passage compared to other reading first this is nonfiction and others like Cane fiction. Looking at all the reading i think this one is the most positive about women in the working world. The Cane stories talk about the women depending on men. This passage talks about the women in the working world taking care of the home and working. Even though it is a struggle it is better for them in the aspect of getting ahead as a race and gender in the society that they lived in back then. So overall it was a lot easier to understand then other reading like Cane that were hard to understand.