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lies, the black women are inferior to black men. Most black women lack of education and courage so that they don’t dare to oppose the strong male, which causes the black female to be under the control of the black men all the time. In the white dominated society, the black women as the lower-grade race are looked down upon by white men. What’s the worse, the white females don’t show their sympathy to the black women though both of them have the similar destination in male-dominated society. Therefore, the black women are isolated, which is just like a black feminist writing that the black women are the tokenism in the black people’s world, but become the tokenism in the female world. That’s to say, the black women as a vulnerable group in society are always neglected. In the ethnic conflicts, the white men and black men are protagonists, and in the ***ual conflicts the protagonists are white men and women. The black women are just token women even if they are mentioned sometimes. So, if the black women want to change the condition, they must have great courage to overcome the racial discrimination and gender discrimination. Recovery of identity is the black women’s goal, which is to be achieved gradually and with the help from the black women community. In the past, the black female could do one thing which is clean the room in the family. However, the black women today can be bosses, astronauts, headmistresses and so on. The black women are walking to success gradually in many fields. But it doesn’t mean the black women have entered into the upper society and they are out of vulnerable group. In fact, their income is still less than men’s and nearly 14% black women are still under the poverty line. Moreover, the black women must work hard after graduation to be promoted. For most black females, endeavor is an endless work. A professor has said that no person helps you and you must work hard by yourself, even if someone would help you, the door is quickly closed. The black females in United States think women must go to the university or read books more and more because there’s nobody supporting themselves or bringing up their children. In short, the black women’s conditions are not optimistic as some people thought. II. Analysis of the Reasons for Black Women’s Low Social Status A. Class Oppression The history of African Americans has been a history of exploitation, social inequality, and discrimination. From the beginning of slavery in British North America around 1619, when a Dutch ship brought 20 enslaved Africans to the Virginia colony at Jamestown, nearly 240 years passed until the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution officially ended slavery in 1865. Slavery was first and foremost a creation of the wealthy, who sought a cheap and reliable source of labor to maximize profits in a highly labor-intensive plantation system. Black slavery was a product of economic motivations and the fact that blacks was in a weaker position to resist it than other groups. As the demand for slaves increased, Europeans paid Africans for purely commercial purposes. Nearly half a million African were brought by force to America, where they were viewed as property and bought, sold, used, and abused at the commerce of the white majority. African American history is often referred to as segregation because that was the dominant reality experienced by black Americans during this period. Under segregation, forced separation of the races and soc