... ; This is generally why most African American inventions or modernistic ideas are from males. Males have gotten a major head start on their female counterparts. Claire Oberon Garcia of the International Journal of Francophone Studies stated, "The presence of this middle-aged black woman in this venerable public arena was itself a living challenge or negation of contemporary constructions of race and ... as pure as some conservative white Americans may believe. According to Ravenscroft, "Where once modernism was celebrated for carrying the past forward, it now tends to be seen as writing ...

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