This paper discusses how sexism and racism both involve imposing a set of
expectations on groups in society and how sexism has not been eliminated from American life any more than racism has. In "Women's Magazines 1940-1960" by Nancy A. Walker, it shows how women's magazines package a set of behaviors, roles, expectations,
attitudes, and values related to
domesticity and which, of followed, would enclose women in a relatively narrow range of choices. In writing about
blacks and how they are treated in American society, Richard Wright in his book "Black Boy" also suggests ways in which blacks are given a packaged set of roles and attitudes to which they are expected to conform. This paper provides a short biography of Richard Wright and attempts to analyze how he would have viewed the expectations and attitudes
imposed on women and how alike or how different would he have seen them from those imposed on blacks.