Tar Baby, Toni Morrison's fourth novel, is a story about Jadine and Son who are the antithesis of each other. Jadine – a graduate in Art History at the Sorbonne and a successful model, goes on to affirm her female identity and her Son – whose mysterious presence begins the novel, adopts multiple names in the novel and is rooted in her African notions but ironically on the run in the narrative. The novel marks a departure from its previous list as the story is set on the Caribbean island, Isles de Chevaliers, in the white villa, L'Arbe de la Croix, where the white couple – Valerian Street and Margaret Street and their black family – reside . servants: Sydney and Ondine. So it is Morrison's first novel that includes white characters as important as black ones in its story. The plot has racist undertones but at the same time brings to light the consequences of colonization on blacks who idealize such white notions to such an extent that they are unable to associate with other blacks within their community. This is revealed by Sydney and Ondine, who “identify,” as Doreatha Mbalia points out, “more with their employers and their employer culture than with their own people and their own culture” (71). This is evidenced by the way Ondine refers to Margaret's cooking as her own and the way they allow Margaret to call them "Kingfish" and "Bueleh" instead of their real names. Gideon and Therese are Yardman and Mary to Sydney and Ondine who in turn are "machete hair" and bow ties to them. Sydney a Son's proclamation of his origin is another proof; “I am a Phil-a-Delphia Negro mentioned in the book of the same name. My people owned pharmacies and taught school while your people still cut their faces for... middle of paper ......st: Toni Morrison novels. New Delhi: Adhyayan Publishers, 2010.Christian, Barbara. Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997. de Weever, Jacqueline. Mythmaking and metaphor in black women's fiction. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.Jennings, La Vinia Delois. Toni Morrison and the idea of ​​Africa. New York: Cambridge,2008.Mbalia, Doreatha Drummond. The Development of Class Consciousness by Toni Morrison. Selingsgrove: SUP, 1991. Morrison, Toni. "An Interview with Toni Morrison." Anything Can Happen: Interviews with Contemporary American Novelists, ed. Tom LeClair and Larry McCaffery. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1983.Peach, Linden. Tony Morrison. USA: St. Martins Press, 2000.Werner, Craig H. Playing the Changes: From Afro-Modernism to the Jazz Impulse. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.