It is the black servant couple, who have been with the Streets for years-the fastidious butler, Sydney, and his strong yet remote wife-who have arranged every detail of existence to create a surface calm broken only by sudden bursts of verbal sparring between Valerian and his wife. In their mansion overlooking the sea, the cultivated millionaire Valerian Street, now retired, and his pretty, younger wife, Margaret, go through rituals of living, as if in a trance. It is a novel suffused with a tense and passionate inquiry, revealing a whole spectrum of emotions underlying the relationships between black men and women, white men and women, and black and white people. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones-of longing and alarm, of urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the landscape itself becomes animate, alive with a wild, dark complicity in the fates of the people whose drama unfolds. Valerian’s power is symbolized by his greenhouse and refuses to leave his island.The author of Song of Solomon now sets her extraordinary novelistic powers on a striking new course. Valerian has all the power in the book, he has several black servants who work for him. Like Valerian Streets, he is a businessman who created the streets that only few can walk on. The dancer from the music video also cannot walk the streets but instead he is seen floating over Los Angeles and its skyline.Jafine is the only one who has access to the streets because she has incorporated her lifestyle in the white world.
Son is blocked from this power because he is a man of color and he does not have the privilege to walk on the streets. They are not allowed to enter into downtown, where the power is. This accident represents what happens to people like Son and the dancer who don’t really have access to the streets. White people dominate and suppress the people of color.
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The police officer does not have the audacity to stop and see if the other driver is fine, but instead the officer leaves the scene with no remorse.This particular scene signifies that there is injustice for African-Americans specifically referring it to police brutality. In a different scene, a police vehicle hits another car because the driver forgets to brake at a stop sign. Jadine is only focused on being accepted by the white society …show more content… The mainstream lifestyle is from white culture. Jadine is so put off by her because Jadine lacks an authentic black identity and is not comfortable being in touch with her roots. The woman is just beautiful as she is and she is comfortable with that. The woman in the yellow dress is the opposite of Jadine and she is not trying to be beautiful in a “white way”. As a black woman, she has made herself attractive in the eyes of a white society, because she is tall, thin, and light-skinned. Jadine thinks in the same way that white people consider what is beauty. Jadine thinks to be beautiful, a black woman must embrace with the white social standard of beauty. Lonely and inauthentic.” (p.131) Nonetheless, Jadine knows that this woman lacks something physical or outer from her body because she is appalled that she can even be considered beautiful. The narrator states that “The woman made her feel lonely in a way. Jadine knows that no way this woman would ever get any photo shoots with a modeling agency. She is dumbfounded that everyone in the store was so mesmerized by her beauty and she could not distinguish why everyone perceived her physique in a positive way. This video’s title and lyrics …show more content… She knew her modeling agency would laugh at her because of her appearance.
Michael Kiwanuka’s music video titled “A Black Man In a White World” relates to the novel because the message exposes the hardships of being an African-American person in a prejudiced society.The character in the video is unlike Jadine because he understands the struggles of being a person of color in a white cultured society. Jadine feels equipped to deal successfully with the white world. Jadine accepts and embraces the white culture without a question. One of the main characters from the novel named Jadine has no real sense of what it means to be a true authentic black woman. Show More Toni Morrison, the author of the novel titled Tar Baby, illustrates the issues and conflicts that African-Americans go through in society.
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