Victorious Or Defeated Black Woman Summary

This quoted sentence shows the racial prejudices were prevailed in the white dominant society and how much African Americans have suffered from it. The selected sentence emphasizes the inequalities the colored women faced and disadvantages they had to embrace in the white dominant community. The author uses literary devices not only to describe but also signify the cruelty of the prevailed racial prejudices and biases in the society.
This passage is initially brought by a rhetorical question, “What does a victorious or defeated black woman’s body in a historically white space look like?” vividly through the usage of the literary devices. Therefore, the answer to the question above would be apparent and simple; no matter how victorious they looked, the black women in the white space always looked disadvantaged and isolated. Furthermore, to intensify the weight in this rhetorical question, the author uses a literary technique of antithesis. The words, “victorious” and “defeated” have completely opposite meanings, however, the readers are able to infer that the black women in white society is gruesome whether “victorious” or “defeated”. Thus, the use of antithesis makes the rhetorical question more self-evident.
The author emphasizes that it is not only the ordinary people who are being treated differently in the society by introducing two successful African American tennis players, Serena and Venus Williams. In fact, even the professional sport stars also suffer because of their skin color, even at a worldwide sports events that people all around the globe watch. Furthermore, considering tennis being a white dominant sporting game, it can be inferred that Serena and Venus are representing African American women and their