African American women specifically face a difficult history to battle in today’s society. One area that African American women battle most is in the arena of sexual and psychological politics in opposition to both white America and their black male counterparts. In “Bad Sistas: Black Women Rappers and Sexual Politics in Rap Music,” female rappers discuss the hardships they face opposing the commonly held belief that they are sexual objects, sexual predators, and subservient to black males. These “Bad Sistas” provide lyrical commentaries on the social and sexual power that women really have, deviating from those of black male rappers, a voice more readily heard.

However, this opposition to the common

In conjunction with African American women, Chicana women have also been fighting for their right to speak out in their culture. In the poem by Bernice Zamora, “Notes from a Chicana ‘Coed’”, Zamora discusses how her husband wants her to “write (poems) about social reality, about ‘the gringo who oppresses you, Babe’” instead of her struggles within her culture and with the men within her culture (Zamora 131). Like the African American women, she is struggling to both support her culture as to not look like a traitor and support her feminist concerns which are so vitally important to her. In her poem, she mimics her lover, saying “’Don’t give me that Women’s Lib trip, mujer, that only divides us, and we have to work together for the movimento; the gabacho is oppressing us!’” Instead of submitting to the standards her culture has, Zamora has chosen to point out the hypocrisies and take the road less traveled by.

Yet instead of settling for the places that were determined by their male comrades, they decided to form their own political movement. Facing huge opposition from both male and female members of their community, they still moved on (Gonzales 216). Consistent with the other minority feminist action, they also

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