The topic of race in American and global culture has been an important and contentious subject for many years. Among the many differing areas that are considered in this broad deliberation is the study of how racism presents in society. Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison uses her short story “Recitatif” to explore bias and action by withholding the races of the characters in the story.
Why does Morrison refuse to reveal the races of her main characters in “Recitatif? Who (if anyone) hurt Maggie? What does it imply that Roberta and Twyla can’t remember the incident by the end of the story?
