"Whose Canon is it, Anyway?

I agree with Gates' article in the fact that women and African Americans get discriminated within literature. Here's an example: remember back in your history classes in middle school, “Did you ever think, did a white male write this?” Back in middle school I was learning about the olden days where there were no women’s rights, there would be two different viewpoints, if a woman wrote it rather than a man writing it. Cause if a man wrote it they might have been sexist towards women and he would write bad things about women. Same thing with African Americans, because men didn’t want women or African Americans to be able to vote, write books, and have rights. So they don’t really have many sources for back then written by a woman or an African American, because they weren’t able to publish anything. There are still some places where the people still believe in African American’s and women to not have many rights. This is just awful, our constitution even states that all people are created equal, but I still believe that some people in society don’t follow that Amendment in the Constitution. I think our society says that but deep down the people don’t really believe it sometimes. This is a real big thing in society that we just ignore.