A comprehensive literary study examining how African American literature portrays struggles with racism, sexism, intersectionality, gender, sexuality, and identity, focusing on works by Alice Walker (The Color Purple), Toni Morrison (Beloved), Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God), James Baldwin (Go Tell It on the Mountain), and Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man). Each novel is analyzed for its portrayal of characters-often Black women or marginalized men-who overcome social, racial, and gender-based oppression through self-discovery, solidarity, and resistance. Walker's The Color...