This paper discusses how African-American authors have been essential to elucidation of the race and gender issues that face
blacks living in America. In particular it looks at how black female authors have confronted the woes of
societal stereotypes and idiosyncrasies that reflect life in America for people of color. It examines how women writers analyze the race, class and gender discrimination that black women have often faced by review of the books "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker and "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison.