Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks, "Maud Martha" and Societal Perception of Skin Deep Beauty "was spurned by members of her own race because she lacked social or athletic abilities, a light skin, and good grade hair." (Galegroup.com) Gwendolyn Brooks throughout her life had to deal...

Writers present the perspective of their particular community and social order. Readers of literature are enabled to see into different lives, different communities, different worlds. Black women writers take the reader into the world of women and the world of the African-American alike, especiall...