【正文】 rliest woman who is selfconscious. She says: “when I found out I thought God was white, and a man, I lost interest.” (Alice Walker 1982) 202These words encourage Celie to be selfconsciousness. Is God a black man? Racial segregation and racial discrimination protect black women stand in the black world from the white men, but they can not escape black men. The biggest misery that black women suffer is imposed by black men who said he is the God of black women. Celie is told by Shug: “men make all fall” and “he is trying if you believe that he is everywhere, you just thought he was God. But he is not God.” “You must erase man’s eye from yours eyeball, you can see all things.” (Alice Walker 1982)184. Be told these words, Celie’s independent mind bees more and more powerful. God is a black woman. In The Color Purple, the heroine is shaped by the author in the ability of personalities, talents are relatively weak. Without the positive caring, loving and encouraging of the other women, she is impossible to get rid of slavery and bees selfconscious. Shug encourages Celie to discover herself, to know herself, to face herself, to confirm herself, and to liberate herself. Sofia is a black woman in this novel who has the most rebellious spirit. For Celie, Sofia is freer than God in spirit. Nettie is Celie’s loving caregivers and spiritual mentor. They are the necessary factors in Celie’s selfconsciousness. They shout the strongest sound though their College of Foreign Languages, Hebei United University 8 smiles that are full of their blood, tears, and sweat. They are loved by God—they are God! God is I! The author surmounts race, sex and belief to liberate men, white men, white women, all of human and world. This is the perfect expression of Alice walker’s womanism. Walker39。s younger sister whom Celie saves from the tragic life that she has to endure. Nettie is prettier than Celie who has been deemed ugly, so Albert is originally interested in Nettie as a wife, but settles for Celie. Nettie runs away from home to be with Celie, but she can not stay with Celie as Albert tries to get physically attached to her again. As a result Nettie leaves Albert’s home. Before leaving she promises to write to Celie and tells her that only death can keep them apart. She also writes many letters to Nettie, but to her surprise, she does not get a reply until one day she finds out the truth that Nettie always replies but her husband hides the letters. This event has aroused Celie’s anger and it is the first time that she wants to fight back and leave home forever. Nettie often tells her sister to fight back when she hears that Celie has been tortured by her husband. “Don’t let them run over you. Show them who’s got the upper hand”. “You got to fight, Celie. You got to”. (Alice Walker 1982) 18 And in the letter to Celie, she says: “You’ve got to fight and get away from Albert. He ain’t good”. (Alice Walker 1982)131Nettie also tries to enlighten Celie. “Helping me with spelling and everything else. She think I need to know. No matter what happen, Nettle Chapter 3 Celie’s Selfconsciousness 9 steady try to teach me what go on in the world. And she a good teacher too”. (Alice Walker 1982) 17 Nettie is eventually taken in by Samuel and Corrine, a missionary couple, with whom she travels to Africa as a missionary. In Africa, Nettie bees the caregiver of Samuel and Corrine39。s mistress, Shug College of Foreign Languages, Hebei United University 10 bees Celie39。s death and moves back to America with Celie39。 they applaud each other’s achievements。s Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but the matter still exists. In The Color Purple, which spans the years between the Depression and the beginning of the Civil Right Movement in the early 1960s, Walker expresses the racial oppression of black people, even the black women in details. Sofia is put in prison because of scolding and beating mayor’s wife on the street. Although released, she is still work as a servant in white mayor’s home. She has the same fate with Celie, oppressed by others, but Celie is a slave for black men and she is a servant for white people despite of breaking the male power in black family. In addition, the Olinka people who Nettie mentioned in letter escape to a desolated place because the white build roads in their inhabited area, threatened the existing space of the black. When the white mayor saw the black had the automobile, he bought it to her wife, because he does not want to be more backward than the black. Therefore, the black women suffer not only physical torture but also the spirit. Black women in double oppression of slavery indicate the difficulties that they encountered are multiple in the fight against social prejudices. Sexual Oppression Feminist movement in the sixties and seventies of the last century belongs to the second wave of the feminist movement. Women’s movement at this stage was characterized by the malecentered criticism and the awakening of female Chapter 2 Double Oppressions Black Women Suffered 5 consciousness. Walker created The Color Purple in the late of 1980s. Although the social situation of women has been proved after three feminist movements, the sexual discrimination still exists. When more and more women occupied the leading position of government, school and media, men called out in alarm: the hen crowed! The black women, as colored people, were deeply oppressed by men. They are timid and think that being submissive is the best way to stay alive. Black men poured their plaint on black women, treating them as life tools without respect. Black men trample on them. In The Color Purple, the oppression which the black females received es from not only the white people with racial discrimination, but also the black males。 she participated in th