This study was conducted with the aim to portray the level in which the African American women were humiliated and dominated by the males, generally, and the whites, particularly, during and after the Civil Right Movement. Three research objectives were formed to achieve the aim. These research objectives were to investigate how the African American women were racially oppressed by the whites, to examine how the black American women suffered from patriarchal oppression by the black men and to examine the impact of racial and patriarchal oppression practiced against the black women. Four selected novels by Alice Walker were analysed to achieve these objectives. The theory employed in this study was the Black Feminist Critical Theory and additionally, this theory was chosen as the conceptual framework to analyse the themes in the selected novels that incorporated black feminist issues with racial matters. Black feminist thoughts also addressed the interconnection of cl.....

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