Black Female Authors

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This paper discusses how African-American authors have been essential to elucidation of the race and gender issues that face blacks living in America. In particular it looks at how black female authors have confronted the woes of societal stereotypes and idiosyncrasies that reflect life in America for people of color. It examines how women writers analyze the race, class and gender discrimination that black women have often faced by review of the books "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker and "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison.

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"The self esteem issues that Pecola dealt with and that black women deal with are quite different from the issues that men deal with. This is due to the fact that women are judged by their appearance more than men are. Men don't have to worry as much about their appearance because it is not as important in our society. Quite often our society places so much emphasis on beauty that women start to believe that there appearance defines who they are?instead of their mind and spirit. On the other hand, men are often defined by the type of job they have and the amount of education that they have received. Men are also defined by how much money they have and the type of vehicle that they drive. The emphasis on the level of education a man has and the amount of money that he makes often leaves men overworked and struggling to maintain healthy relationships with their wives and children."

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