Toni Morrison and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese :: Biography Biographies Essays

Toni Morrison and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese   In this I essay will be discussing two incomparable authors, Toni Morrison and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. Morrison is a Nobel Prize winning author, and Fox-Genovese, is a history professor at Harvard. Both of these women confound interesting perspectives on race and gender. agree to the articles I have read, Toni and Fox-Genovese claim the sort people view women and minorities is ill-use.    In a Vibe Magazine interview, Toni claims that In a recent British she-goat case, there was complaint about the mother not being home base with child...she she should have been home with her children, said some people (Vibe 1998 p.2). Morrison states that it would be an solely different situation, had the mother been a poor opprobrious women. A black women should work, even if that work is taking care of somebady elses children (Vibe 1998). This is a wrong way to look at things we fought a long time to have Women takin g care of children understood to be work. Now its understood to be something else (Vibe 1998 p.3).     According to Toni, people size up who you are by what you look like, what your pertain is, and by what you do. However this is only part of who you are. When I was a petite girl, a man came up to me and said, are you a Willis? - referring to my mothers maiden name-I thought so, by the way you walk. I moved to New York and people said, What do you do So you say Im a writer..but you thats only part of who you are (Vibe 1998 p.3). Often people inclose their identity in what they do. This can be troublesome when your not playacting to someones expectations, one might think there is some thing wrong with who they are, which is not true. The same thing applies to gender and race. It is unfair to already have a preconcieved notion about someone without checking him or her out first.    Fox-Genovese claims that many articles of literature exclude certain p eople. Like Morrison, Fox-Genovese agrees that elite culture denied the set and perceptions of all others and imposed itself as an absolute standard (Fox-Genovese 1998).