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Tar Baby
"Tar Baby is also a name, like "nigger," that white people call black children, black girls as I recallAt one time, a tar pit was a holy place, at least an important place, because tar was used to build thingsIt held tighter things like Moses' little boat ands the pyramids. For me, the tar baby came to mean the black woman who can hold things tighter."
("An interview-8)
The intriguing book Tar Baby a novel by Toni Morrison is a novel that touches base with the biases which exist on race levels, gender level and class levels. The conflict of differences that individuals present has always seemed to promote problems in the past. Toni Morrison changes the people's raw perspective and unravels a different perspective where we are all the same, but what splits us up into groups is not only social, religion or beliefs. It's how we complicate situations.
The central conflict in the book is with the main character, Judine. Suggested by Andrew W.A. Lavelle, is a conflict of the "race traitor"...