ABSTRACT
Tony Brown, a syndicated columnist and the host of the television program Tony Brown’s Journal has called the film The Color Purple “the most racist depiction of Black men since The Birth of a Nation and the most anti-Black family film of the modern film era.” Ishmael Reed, a Black novelist, has labeled the film and the book “a Nazi conspiracy.” 1 Since its premiere in December 1985, The Color Purple has provoked constant controversy, debate, and appraisals of its effects on the image of Black people in the United States.
