Literature And Everyday Life Toni Morrison s The Dark,...

From the role it plays in literature to its looming existence in our everyday lives, race has an undeniable influence on many aspects of our lives. Toni Morrison and Peggy McIntosh, a writer and an activist respectively, both have the urge to understand this presence and impact of race in literature and everyday life specifically. Through self-reflection and attempts to see from others’ perspectives, both Morrison and McIntosh manage to answer their own questions regarding race and its role in literature and everyday life while articulating their discoveries and intentions in similar and comparable ways. Both of their pieces, â€Å"Playing in the Dark,† and â€Å"White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to see Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies,† help Morrison and McIntosh, as well as readers, to understand the polar yet interdependent nature of African American and white status in America. Toni Morrison specifically delves deep into the role â€Å"Africanism† plays in American literature in her piece, â€Å"Playing in the Dark,† while in â€Å"White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to see Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies,† Peggy McIntosh strives to understand her privilege as a white female by pointing out its similarities to male privilege. What these two writers have in common is their use of self-realization and reflection as tools to understanding not only the mindset and circumstances of those outside themselvesShow MoreRelatedOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 PagesPerspectives on the Past, edited by Susan Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig Also in this series: Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes, eds., Oral History and Public Memories Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life Lisa M. Fine, The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A. Van Gosse and Richard Moser, eds., The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America Joanne Meyerowitz, ed., History and September 11th John McMillian