The Color Purple: Real Outcome Of Economic Achievement And Alternative Economic View

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an external world based in a society where the white oppressor
governs the oppressed black populace. The economic realities of white land
ownership, near-monopoly of technical and business skills and control of
financial institutions was in fact the accepted norm (Sowell 48).

When presenting the term fact - we must account for the introduction of a
second model, "historical and empirical data" in representing the real
world of The Color Purple.

As illustrated in the pages of American history books, it is evident that
American Negro slavery had a peculiar combination of features. The key
features of American slavery were that it followed racial or color lines
and that it was slavery in a democratic country (Sowell 4). The fact that
it existed in a democratic country meant that it required some
extraordinary rationale to reconcile it with the prevailing values of the
nation. Racism was an obvious response, whose effects were still felt more
than a century after its abolition ...

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