Stereotypes In The Color Purple By Alice Walker

Alienation is an often used literary device that helps authors prove points that otherwise would be overlooked. Excluding characters from their societies, like in real life, demonstrates how they are different from what’s expected and therefore accepted. One of the main characters in the story of The Help, Skeeter, is an excellent example of this. She is alienated from the community of Jackson, Mississippi, because she believes that everyone is the same and that color of the skin does not define a person’s ability or right to live equally. She works with some of the local “help” to write a book about many of their lives.

Shirley had her way with words by speeches and speaking out her mind, she wasn 't shy to back off, she spoke for the people because she knew no one else would do it. In the speech Equality Rights For Women it says “... There is a calculated system of prejudice that lies unspoken behind that question. Why is it acceptable for women to be secretaries, librarians, and teachers, but totally unacceptable for them to be managers, administrators, doctors, lawyers, and Members of Congress... It has been observed before, that society for a long time discriminated against another minority, the blacks on the same basis - that they were different and inferior. The happy little homemaker and the contented "old darkey" on the plantation were both produced by prejudice…”-Shirley

A moving inspirational novel told in letters to portray how life was for African Americans, and especially women is The Color Purple. It is not about purple in no way at all; it is actually a difficult book to tackle, dealing with rape insest, explicit sex, sexism, and violence toward women and a lesbian relationship. Not only does it speak of women, but it tells of how there was a negative depiction of African American men during this time. The novel consists of letters written by the main protagonist, Celie, that she has written to God.

Text 2, Why black women feel so betrayed by Rachel Dolezal, presents a subjective view on the act of pretending to be black. The author, Kinouani states how unwarranted and unnecessary the case is. While so many black women

Simpson portrays empowerment gender, identity, and culture in her images despite the oppression of racist culture impacts black women 's body and identity. Five-day forecast by Lorna Simpson incorporates five large boxes with days of the week Monday through Friday. It 's a way of expressing misconceptions as a black woman. In her image “five-day forecast” she has two words in each day such as; misdescription, misidentifies and mistranslate. When the audience sees this particular image they think of race and identity because Lorna has her arms crossed in each box but it happens to be so that as the days pass by her shirt starts getting wrinkled.

The combination of this and slavery has brainwashed the black community to think they are not as valuable as non-blacks. “Black women need to be empowered so that they can protect themselves against the negative messages that they receive from their environment.” (Bryant, 89) The naturalista niche is essentially the black community uniting to let the world know that the Eurocentric idea of beauty may not include them but they are not the ones who need to change to become beautiful. The definition of beauty is “the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit” (Merriem-Webster), saying that black women are not beautiful is implying that there is nothing about her that stimulates one’s senses in a positive way.

But to those people, I was Black because I was simply not white. However, when I was compared to other black people from different schools, I was not Black. If I received a dollar for every time someone told me I was a White girl trapped inside of a Black girl body, I would be sitting on bills today. At first I would go along with it because I was afraid to engage

The author F.B Newman once said, “be careful what you say. You can always say you 're sorry, but you can never take back what you said.” A post in Psychology Today by Satoshi Kanazawa called “A Look at the Hard Truths About Human Nature" argues that African American women are less attractive than other women. He uses Body Mass Index (BMI), intelligence, and testosterone levels in men and women in order to make his argument. Not a stranger to controversial works, Kanazawa’s post about African American women also faced heavy backlash and questions about the violation of bias in research.

The Color Purple unleashed a storm of controversy; a number of male African-American critics complained that the novel reaffirmed old racist stereotypes. Nevertheless, the Color Purple also had its supporters,

In the article, “No Such Place as ‘Post- Racial America”, by TOURE, describes how she begs the peoples of calling America ‘post racial’ because it is not. Race is