Prejudice in The Color Purple I am very educated, yet at the same time, not too familiar with the prejudice that takes place in the novel The Color Purple, by Alice Walker. First of all, this book mainly focuses on prejudice toward black women in the early 1900's. Although blacks were free and women had a little more power than before, the black woman of America were still looked down on as being servants to their black men. Next, the prejudice in this book was mainly caused by history. In the past, blacks were slaves and the women were used for reproducing and taking care of the family and home and were often uneducated. The history of black woman hadn't changed much in the eyes of many people in the early 1900's so a lot of the prejudice activity was still taking part in the lives of many of these individuals. In The Color Purple, a woman by the nam....

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