Look who finally got around to do one.

Initially I had chosen the Feminist lens. However, in light of recent events of police brutally involving unarmed people of color, I reconsidered my lens. While I still regard reading this book through the feminism and gender roles lens as important; I also believe that the New Historian lens best encompasses both the feminist lens while still allowing me to look at the obvious racial factors that continue to linger with us today. The connection between the murder of Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and even Alex Nieto and the time this book was set on was clear and continues to be clear. We continually see the ripple effects of slavery. With the death of slavery came the birth to the white supremacy and race. As the sociologist Loïc Wacquant once said the “Racial division was a consequence, not a precondition of slavery, but once it was instituted it became detached from its initial function and acquired a social potency all its own.”