Literacy And The Black Woman

 In this reading, Sharon M. Darling describes the struggles that women endured in order to have the same education as white women. White women saw the black women as inferior, and it was hard for Black women to gain respect as a literate being. Darling explains how a system was put in place in order to continue the inferiority of blacks, by neglecting them in teaching equal reading and writing skills. Whites felt that if they denied blacks from the same level of skills as whites, they could forever label blacks as illiterate.There is a dominant relation between poverty, illiteracy, and control. It's hard for black women to gain control because the whites are more advanced in education, and will not listen to or respect an individual that is not as equally literate. Therefore it's easy to continue cycles amongst generations because at that time there was no breakage for gaining knowledge. Just as "Protect and Serve", Darling connects the mother's knowledge to the language of her children because of the automatic transmission from a mother to her child, known as "the mother tongue."

This reading was of some interest to see the different words to describe the circumstances of the black woman. However, this information is connected to some type of information we have all learned before, which appears to be redundancy of opinions.