UNICAMP 2023: Leia, a seguir, parte de um discurso da abolicionista estadunidense Sojourner Truth, feito em 1851. “I think that ‘twixt the ...
UNICAMP 2023: Leia, a seguir, parte de um discurso da abolicionista estadunidense Sojourner Truth, feito em 1851.
“I think that ‘twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what’s all this here talking about?That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man – when I could get it – and bear the lash as well! And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman? (…)”
(Disponível em: https://www.nps.gov/articles/sojourner
-truth.htm. Acesso em 24/05/2022.)
Ao longo do discurso, Sojourner Truth repete a mesma pergunta com a finalidade de
a) ilustrar atitudes sexistas vivenciadas por mulheres negras e brancas.
b) problematizar a diferença de tratamento dispensado a mulheres negras e brancas.
c) advogar pela igualdade de direitos entre homens e mulheres.
d) criticar a separação entre brancos e negros de diferentes classes sociais.
GABARITO:
b) problematizar a diferença de tratamento dispensado a mulheres negras e brancas.
PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO:
QUESTÃO DISPONÍVEL EM:
