Kemeshia Randle |
Name: Kemeshia Randle
School: Tougaloo College Major: English Mentor: Dr. Ethel Young-Minor Expected Graduation Date: May 2007 Organizations & Honors: • Ronald E. McNair ScholarE-MAIL: missmeshiarandle@aol.com COMMENTS:
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ABSTRACT
All Women Are Conjurers”: Voodoo Manipulation in the Heroines of Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men and Jewell Parker Rhodes’s Voodoo Dreams
Although Black women should have benefited from the freedoms included in the United States Constitution, many struggle against race and gender oppression. Being black and female in the United States often places one in a position of what Francis Beale refers to as “double jeopardy,” where one struggles with race and gender. One of the methods of reducing double jeopardy’s negative impact has been voodoo manipulation. This paper explores voodoo manipulation by Black females by tracing its historical manipulation in Hurston’s Mules and Men and its imaginative manipulation in Jewell Parker Rhodes’ Voodoo Dreams. |