What is the double-bind that African- American women poets encountered in the thirties and forties, according to Anthony Waltons essay ?

A. 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

B. Being ignored by a traditional poetry reading public because what they wrote about was the travails of subsistence living

C. Being overworked in menial jobs having to raise large families

D. Having little formal education with little access to publishers

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