Author(s): Kukatlapalli Subbarayudu

Abstract: Africans are brought into the United States of America by slave traders and are sold to the white people as slaves. Slave masters used the black people to work in the plantation and to do all sorts of other odd jobs. The black people served the white people for more than three centuries and have gone through different odd situations in their real life. They have historically faced significant socioeconomic disparities. At present a significant number of African Americans attained bourgeois status. Dorothy West, the last leaf of Harlem Renaissance highlighted social status of African Americans in the United States of America. Going through works of Dorothy West highlighted social status of African Americans in this article.

Keywords: African Americans, slavery, social status, stratification, bourgeois status

Article Info: Received: 15 Apr 2025; Received in revised form: 13 May 2025; Accepted: 18 May 2025; Available online: 23 May 2025

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.103.34