RACIAL SOCIALIZATION: A ROUTE TOWARDS PROGRESSIVE IMAGES OF BLACKNESS IN BROWN GIRLS DREAMING

Abstract

Socilization of postivity in any community is the source of hope and success for its residents. It encourages the members of the socaity to look beyond the conventional image assocaited with it to a now zenith of optimism. African American are aware of the xenophobic and racial setting which is in the fabric of the society that also present them negatively in the main stream media and would never allow them to achieve their successes and dreams. They know that they can achieve it by inculcating positve image of black race and assocaite revolutionary ideas with blackness. They start constructing positve images of blackness through racial socailization among the communtiy. This study investigate the prcess of racial socialzation among the community as an urgency to understand not only how whiteness presents negative images of the blackness in everyday life in American society, but also explore how to associate positive image with it that creates new possibilities of configuring and performing Blackness differently, as a response to   the configurations of the culture of fear to produce new ways of interactional social change and transformation in Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girls Dreaming  in the shades of racial socialization process.  Textual analysis of the selected novels reveals that the role racial socialization among African American community is the determinant of their success because it motivates the members of the black community and instills positive feelings in them by associate positive images with blackness.