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In this paper, the issue of sexism, racism, as well as letter writing and sewing as alternate historical voices for female identity are analyzed within this study of "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker. In many ways, the sexist white male patriarchy used African-American women as mere commodities, often raping and impregnating women so that they could sell their offspring in the slave markets. The writer maintains that this horrific example of male domination is also part of the problem of female voices in American history, which Walker depicts through letter writing and sewing as methods of communicating the importance of the feminist experience.

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