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What is the “double-bind” that African- American women poets encountered in the thirties and forties, according to Anthony Walton’s essay ?

What is the “double-bind” that African- American women poets encountered in the thirties and forties, according to Anthony Walton’s essay ?

A. Being overworked in menial jobs having to raise large families
B. Being a subordinated woman in a male dominated culture and a member of a suppressed minority race in the middle of a dominant white culture
C. Having little formal education with little access to publishers
D. Being ignored by a traditional poetry reading public because what they wrote about was the travails of subsistence living