Racism is a practice evolved from a myth that physical
traits of one race is superior to another. The basic myth of racism is that
white skin colour brings with it superiority that the white is more
intelligent, more virtuous where is black its Foil Carry all the opposite
traits of white. Afro American race is more prone to the practice of racism as
they have been uprooted from the native soil to unknown terrain of another
race. Afro American literary span can easily be marked as apartheid and
post-Apartheid period. The Apartheid Period has literary contributions on how
Afro American community subjected to racism in the hand of other races. Whereas
Post-apartheid period has a different story in which the Racism is not mere
external but internalized. Being an Afro American writer Toni Morrison
confronts racism as the African American’s primary obstacle. And Morrison
always find solutions inside community not outside. In 1970 Toni Morrison made
her debut as a novelist with the Bluest Eye. Unlike other writers who speaks on
racial conflicts as an issue from outside. Morrison analysis racism can be
removed if it’s not internalized. For that Morrison believes that the concept
of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the most pernicious and destructive
has to be lifted Morrison’s first work and recent work God Help the Child
discussed on the same theme but the crucial difference is the change in
societal approach on the racial ideologies of black and white community.
Author(s) Details
Chitra Soman Author(s) Details
Department of English, Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, Kanyakumari, India.
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