Examples Of Racial Ambiguity

Once they reached adulthood, the two realized that political problems split them even farther on their racial dichotomies, displayed in their relation to one another while picketing racial integration that sought to bus their children to different schools, but these opposite forces reveal to hold the same dependence on one another as if the two were each a portion of yin and yang, drawing them back into the same “salt and pepper” state they were in as children and reminding us that the innate connection they had still survived even in disagreement. We know this to be so through the symbolic nature of the signs that the women were using in protest. Twyla stated, “People changed signs from time to time, but Roberta never did and neither did I. Actually my sign
The audience preoccupies itself in determining race, when in reality it proves only to mask the importance of this underlying sisterhood that cannot exist without its fellow feminine bloodlines. A powerful example of racial ambiguity, the character Maggie, which the two main characters saw as their mothers and never do agree on her racial identity, represents this idea of race as unfixed as the memory of her begins to fade in both of their minds. As well, Maggie served as the embodiment of the powerlessness of the girls, and so when the “gar girls” were abusing her, neither Twyla nor Roberta tried to help her, rather they viewed the weakness within themselves being attacked though her abuse. Maggie’s defenselessness outlined the struggles of being a woman, especially having a severe handicap, and being abused by other women was a strange form of “natural selection,” if you will, that sought to attack woman