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Lopez, Nicole (Faculty Mentor)
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Digital Commons at St. Mary's University
Publication Date
Spring 2026
Keywords
Toni Morrison, Beloved, African American Women, Humanity, Separation
Description
In Toni Morrison's Beloved, separation becomes the ideal solution for African American women to recover their humanity and build a future. These women understandably harbor for their oppressor and would be unable to foster a coexistence with them, given their suffering after being the victims of sexual assault, lynchings, hard labor, substandard living circumstances, and death regularly. By illustrating the methodical methods in which women are dehumanized under Whiteness, this essay examines how each woman reclaims their humanity through the separation of Whiteness in their lives through Baby Suggs’s preaching, Sethe’s choice to kill her daughter, Denver’s exploration of reality distanced from her family, and Beloved’s mere existence. Keywords: Race, Maternity, Slavery, History, Identity
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1 poster
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San Antonio, Texas
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