Alice Walker Precis & Reverse Outline (Journal Entry... I dunno, 13?)

Alice Walker speaks on how the South sees the everyday black woman. She uses allusions and writes from the perspective of others in her article "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: The Creativity of Black Women in the South".

1st paragraph: Touches the subject of Jean Toomer. Begins discussing the spirituality and objectiveness of southern black women in the early 1900's.
2nd/3rd "paragraphs": describes women as saints, introduces (grand)mother concept
4th paragraph: Black women were looked at, not interacted with, what they leisurely did
5th paragraph: spiritual description of the women?
6th "paragraph": Women ahead of thier time
7th paragraph: Describing through Toomer's perspective of how the women were going "nowhere"
8th paragraph: Toomer perspective, the women lead sad lives

Time for a change of pace

9th-11th paragraphs: Mothers/grandmothers were artists depraved of thier craft due to social and class structure
12th-14th paragraphs: Where would we be if we didn't have black female artists? Poem by Okot p'Biek. Response to poem about how who and what exactly black women are.
15th-17th paragraphs: Introduce Virginia Woolf and Phillis Wheatly
18th-21st paragraphs: Description of what Virginia wrote and how it applies to slave Phillis taken away from African home. Little bit about how Phillis lived and died
22nd-25th paragraphs: more about Phillis, her poem. Meaning behind the poem and why Phillis chose to write it
26th-28th paragraphs: What women are called and how they are seen in society as "castraters" and the like. How previous black writers helped her to write this article as well as push her career along
29th-32nd paragraphs: About her own mother's life and marriage and daily life in the early to mid 1900's and how it affected her and her children.
33rd-35th paragraphs: about quilt in Smithsonian made by anonymous Alabama woman
36th-41st paragraphs: Literary allusions by Virginia Woolf and The Third Life of George Copeland, and how it ties into Walker's mother's life.
42nd-45th paragraphs: memories of her mother's garden and people and how it was her art
46th-end: poem, meaning of poem, and how hopefully long ago in Africa, women could be the artists they wanted to be