1. Patriarchs and Oppression in The Color Purple
The twentieth century society was influenced by the "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy"2 of the white men. ... From being sexually molested by the white colonizer to serving as a maid in a white man's family, nurturing their kids while her own kids were starving and were being neglected, a black woman would be constantly socially manipulated and physically ravished. ... The word advocates the racist and classist facets of the white feminism and seeks to acknowledge the black women's history of sexual violence and psychological trauma. ... The word comes from the theol...
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- Grade Level: High School