This thesis explores the plight of being a woman of color in America through a Black feminist lens particularly as these experiences are depicted in Anne Spencer's "Letter to My Sister" and Ann Petry's The Street. Written as a love letter to other women of color, Spencer contends that ...
In this context, it is useful to introduce intersectionality—a feminist sociological concept first introduced by Crenshaw (1991)—which leads us to critically understand the nature of differentiated vulnerability and adaptation due to the interactions among multiple dimensions of social and power relations...