(DIS)COVERING THE (IN)VISIBILITY OF THE COLORED IN THE VANISHING HALF BY BRIT BENNETT

Abstract

Colored people are subjugated and marginalized in every possible way due to their racial identity. It is one of the burning issues not only in the contemporary American society but around the globe. The present research universalizes the phenomenon of creating binaries on the basis of race and color. It investigates how racial identities are generated to achieve certain political goals. It challenges the self-proclaimed notion of the white Americans that they are living in post-racial society. It identifies the multiple issues attached with this socially constructed phenomenon of racism. It examines the nature of systematic racism foregrounded in The Vanishing Half written by the Afro-American author Brit Bennett while employing Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic’s concepts discussed in Critical Race Theory: An Introduction. These concepts intersect the modern forms of racism. It shows that minorities are victims of identity crises. They are the most invisible and unrepresented creatures. Multiple psychosocial issues are faced by these marginalized and colored people. They suffer under the supremacy of the white man.