The Way Black Women Face Racial Problems In Maya Angelou's Selected Poems

This thesis discuss the way Black women face the racial problem in three selected poems written by Maya Angelou. The researcher employs feminism theory spesifically Black feminism and new criticism limited to imagery and figurative language in analysing the poems. The research is conducted in descriptive qualitative method. The result of the study shows that in Maya Angelou’s three selected poems, Black woman faces different problem in each poem. In the poem “Still I Rise”, black woman faces the problem about discriminated, injustice and hatred because of her different colour and gender during the slavery era and she can deal with the problems through the self-confidence and strong personality. In “Phenomenal Woman”, Black woman faces the problem about the standard of beauty that the society made and it does not belong to the speaker physical appearance but she can deals with the problems by showing her pride and inner strength. And in the last poem “Weekend Glory”, Black woman faces the prejudice from the whites who always underestimated her and she can deal with the problems on how she lives life gratefully