Black women were mocked and attacked for staying home

Evidence

This is significant when one considers white public opinion toward black women at the time. Jacqueline Jones vividly exposes the ridicule and hostility directed at southern black families when wives and mothers attempted to attend to their own households in the years following the Civil War. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 165

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why did the white public see black women’s domesticity as an ‘evil’ — what threat did it pose to labor extraction?
• XREF: connects to: White men mocked black women who most resembled white ladies. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 174

Broader Connections

• White men mocked black women who most resembled white ladies. #expands (0.82) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 174