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The novel The Color Purple by Pulitzer Prize winner Afro-American writer Alice Walker, is an exploration in survival and growth of black women in America in a racist society. In this novel, Walker has clearly shown that the black woman is double jeopardized and oppressed by male patriarchy and racial discrimination. The black woman faced the reality of double discrimination of both race and sex. The identity and freedom type of concepts were absolutely unknown to the black woman. She is not safe even at home. At home a black woman had to face gender discrimination and outside she faced racial discrimination as well. Thus, through her writings, Alice Walker has very deeply and closely exposed sexism and racism that affected the black woman in America. The themes of her most of the novels are the struggle of a black woman in racist, sexist and violent society. Though the blacks gained their rights to equality through law but in reality they are still considered as slaves and inferior to the white and face racial discrimination, subjugation and hatred feelings. The case of black female is the worst. It becomes very difficult for a black female to establish her identity in such a hostile environment. She suffers at the hands of both black as well as white men and as a result had to fight for her survival both outside and inside the home. The Color Purple is concerned with the complex question of racism and its horrors. It presents a realistic, disturbing and horrific picture of slavery. But Alice Walker shows that her female characters are so daunting that they cope with the hostile situations and establish their identity in spite of all odds.