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Women In History

Black women could not relate to Rosie the Riveter. Rosie's cause and face represented the causes and faces of fashionable, attractive white women.
             During the same time, there were women who held no similarities with the working women of the 1940's. For example there were many women forced to give up their homes and farms and made to live in internment camps. The Japanese internment camps were set up by the United States government during World War Two. The motive around this movement was to move Japanese Americans away from the public in the name of national security. Although these people were American citizens and did absolutely nothing wrong, the U.S. thought that it was in the nation's best interest to keep them away from white America. This is just another shameful part of America's history that was minimized and hardly taught to most children in grade school or high school. The stories of the internment camps are withheld from the normal history class because the history that we are taught was written by an educated, upper-middle class white man. I for one was taught to be proud of these women who were making planes and military paraphernalia while I knew nothing about the truth behind the war. I never learned about the camps or the black workers until I was able to understand my own need for truth and sought it out on my own. I personally have no connection to Rosie the Riveter. Why is this my history as a woman? This is not my history, but it is an attractive catchy symbol to glamorize war. The truth is not Rosie's face. Rosie is a model who is easier to look at by society than the face of a dirty and malnourished Japanese American woman at the Poston Camp. .
             "That Damned Fence- is a poem that circulated around the Poston internment camp. Its author is unknown but was obviously a person who was imprisoned there. This poem describes the gloomy lives of the people trapped in the camp.


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