What is the “double-bind” that African- American women poets encountered in the thirties and forties, according to Anthony Walton’s essay ?

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Being a subordinated woman in a male dominated culture and a member of a suppressed minority race in the middle of a dominant white culture

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Being overworked in menial jobs having to raise large families

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Having little formal education with little access to publishers

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Being ignored by a traditional poetry reading public because what they wrote about was the travails of subsistence living

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