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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2022(VII-IV).01 10.31703/gsr.2022(VII-IV).01 Published : Dec 2022The Socio-Economic Position of Afro-American Women in Gyasi's Homegoing: A Study of Gender Pay Discrimination and Identity
This article explores the socioeconomic place of Afro-American women from slavery to the present in Gyasi's Homegoing through bell hook's feminist lens. bell hooks is of the view that the stigma wrought upon the image of black women by the slave trade has crushed their social status in contemporary America. This research shows how Afro-Afro-American continues to live in contemporary white supremacist America where they cannot escape from the clutches of occupational discrimination and gender pay disparity. Compared to any other field, black women are more likely to work in low-paid sectors including food service, housekeeping, and healthcare centers, and less likely to hold management or engineering roles, which tend to pay greater. Black mothers who earn less have little money for basic needs like accommodation, food, and education. This has a long-term effect on their property, higher education, or savings. The current factors affecting the wages of black women are racial and gender discrimination, workplace harassment, segregation, and hostile policies of different organizations.
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Afro-American Women, Race, Identity, Gender Discrimination
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(1) Sana Zafar
Lecturer, Department of English, Shiblee Group of Colleges, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Saira Zaheer
Teacher, Department of English, Government Girls Primary School, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Ghulam Murtaza
Professor, Department of English Literature, Government College University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Zafar, S., Zaheer, S., & Murtaza, G. (2022). The Socio-Economic Position of Afro-American Women in Gyasi's Homegoing: A Study of Gender Pay Discrimination and Identity. Global Sociological Review, VII(IV), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2022(VII-IV).01
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CHICAGO : Zafar, Sana, Saira Zaheer, and Ghulam Murtaza. 2022. "The Socio-Economic Position of Afro-American Women in Gyasi's Homegoing: A Study of Gender Pay Discrimination and Identity." Global Sociological Review, VII (IV): 1-7 doi: 10.31703/gsr.2022(VII-IV).01
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HARVARD : ZAFAR, S., ZAHEER, S. & MURTAZA, G. 2022. The Socio-Economic Position of Afro-American Women in Gyasi's Homegoing: A Study of Gender Pay Discrimination and Identity. Global Sociological Review, VII, 1-7.
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MHRA : Zafar, Sana, Saira Zaheer, and Ghulam Murtaza. 2022. "The Socio-Economic Position of Afro-American Women in Gyasi's Homegoing: A Study of Gender Pay Discrimination and Identity." Global Sociological Review, VII: 1-7
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MLA : Zafar, Sana, Saira Zaheer, and Ghulam Murtaza. "The Socio-Economic Position of Afro-American Women in Gyasi's Homegoing: A Study of Gender Pay Discrimination and Identity." Global Sociological Review, VII.IV (2022): 1-7 Print.
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OXFORD : Zafar, Sana, Zaheer, Saira, and Murtaza, Ghulam (2022), "The Socio-Economic Position of Afro-American Women in Gyasi's Homegoing: A Study of Gender Pay Discrimination and Identity", Global Sociological Review, VII (IV), 1-7
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TURABIAN : Zafar, Sana, Saira Zaheer, and Ghulam Murtaza. "The Socio-Economic Position of Afro-American Women in Gyasi's Homegoing: A Study of Gender Pay Discrimination and Identity." Global Sociological Review VII, no. IV (2022): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2022(VII-IV).01