Black women's hardship around Harlem Renaissence

Black women's hardship around Harlem Renaissence
During Harlem Reneissance period, black women has great difficulties in thier life. As they always has carried double burdens racially and sexually, "black" and "women", their life is much harder than black men's or non-black women's. They struggle with disatvantages which their unique and unavoidable burdens brought to them.
In Elise Johnson Mcdougald's The Task of Negro Womanhood , their burdens are explained with historical and sociological point of view about three socio-economic groups (bourgeoise, working middle-class mothers, and poor housewives), while Nella Larsen's Quicksand focuses on one middle-class woman who has a black father and a Danish mother and continues unsuccessful journey to search for racial identity .

The disadvantage brought by this burden is clearly seen especially when it comes to their work situation, family situation, and establishing identities.

The number and kind of jobs th...