Popular culture materials and commercial images are also very valuable tools for exploring the cultural constructs that framed the lives and experiences of African-American women. ... They have etched anew the cultural landscape with their courage and vision. ...
Baldwin seems to suggest that the emerging socio-political, religious and economic diversity will guarantee that the Western ideal of integration, which has resulted in white domination of other groups, will not be the standard ideal of the future global landscape. White men, who are obviously aware of the threats to their fame, have characteristically responded by way of economic and habitually cultural discrimination. ...
Just as she casts aside men when she is done with them, Sula takes Eva's altered "cultural narratives of femininity and desirability" and uses them to recreate her own version of woman (de Angelis 174). Eva fashions her own cultural narrative by not allowing the departure of BoyBoy to devastate her life and the lives of her children. ... And while Nel does not engage the new cultural landscape...
One could argue that African Americans as a result of they"re historically subordinate and oppressed position, have encompassed a unique sub-cultural position within American society. ... A specific African-American subculture that has played a significant role in the American cultural landscape through its intensified position of racial subordination in black prisoners. ...