Children exploitation in Richard Wright’s Black Boy and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
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African American children have been exploited in South of the United States, especially, in Mississippi and Georgia. Hence of intensive exploitation, they were influenced profoundly. It has been depicted in their autobiography or in their written novels. This paper focuses on the main reasons for African American exploitation, and types of exploitation in the work of Richard Wright (Black Boy) and Alice Walker (The Color Purple), such as racism, sexism, classism, family fragmentation and patriarchy. Then, it suggests some ideas for protection of African American children.
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