Sororophobia by Helena Michie and Black Female Sexuality in Passing by Deborah E. McDowel

Passing to the history, people simply get the specific rights and authority, simply based on the color of the skin. People with dark skin tend to fit much. Light skin gets landscaping close to nature. However, many "breeding" white squirrels, which have been raised among large racial and many African American families also look like "black" blood, many are "hybrid" with a high social status I will use this to get respect. Hidden as "a real race of action, known as a real race" died "Nera Larsen's short story" Transfer ", two friends Mestiso Together with a child, Eileen West Over / Red field and Claire Kendry, they want to reconnect later

According to scholars, Deborah McDowell said that Larsen wanted to tell a black woman with the sexual desire of the story, she wanted to establish, so the novelist is a black middle class, restricted "A wonderful black woman" that had to be taken as an example, a new, Eileen is shown as sexual oppression. Irene and her husband Brian have a weak relationship. In fact, they have different rooms. McDowell thinks this is more obvious, Eileen Claire is very confused sexy. McDowell thinks the story is about "Irene Clea's Sexuality Wake"

Normative black The body of a woman is impossible. The text of the repair history of 16 black female white men might look like Iola Leroy Francis E. W. Harper, but this is a new Deborah McDowell in the same deep discussion to change. That hero is a typical representative of the black literary heroine as soon as (McDowell 38) wrote "Simple, pure, always-exemplary, self-sacrificing and constant efforts for good function of the group". Therefore, Harper's heroine is arranged as a contrary to a stereotype black woman that is structured to be unreasonable sexuality with cultural imagination. However, in order to compete with the femininity of the build mode black, the main character of Harper is drawn as expectation of white female. McDowell 38

Because of the slavery and objective observation of the history of black women's history, scholars have a special treatment in the Harlem Renaissance careful "sex", silently. Black novelists, especially black female novelists, must be more cautious when writing sex characters. On the other hand, women, especially black women, were used as sex products. Therefore, for the purpose, black novelists want to overcome the heritage of rape. They wanted to return to the stereotypes of black women as "sex objects", and "black and white women" "timid and discreet." Writers wanted to repeat the oppression experience of women, especially African-American women There is none