How is race and ethnicity represented in Tar Bay and White Teeth? Are race and/or ethnicity questioned in these narratives, and if so, how? Toni Morrison, an American writer, specifically talks about different aspects of the past, commenting on her explanation of this "untenable reality" of slavery and the African American voices that developed out of it. He writes about his particular understanding of history and memory, his depiction of the psychological ramifications of slavery, his depiction of race/ethnic relations in America. Particularly in the novel Tar Baby by Toni Morrison the notion of race and ethnicity is explored through blackness which presents to readers that as a nation we are all involved in the construction of blackness and to present and show ways in which black art can promote and transform buildings. Zadie Smith's novel "White Teeth" explores the interaction between a set of different ethnicities that make up diverse British life. Smith's aim in "White Teeth" is to find an attempt to construct a new model of Englishness that is suited to the multicultural structure of the country at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Although the novel presents that it challenges the notion of race and ethnicity as it reveals through its form and subject matter the cultural anxieties related to the construction of Englishness in the contemporary imagination. (Victoria University Library database - American Studies in Review. ''A knowledge so Deep It's Like a secret'' Recent Approaches to Race, Identity and Transformation in Toni Morrison's Fiction.) In Tony Morrison's Tar baby the notion of race is explored through the darkness that presents readers with what a native… medium of paper… of English adapts to the multicultural structure of the country at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Although the novel presents that it challenges the notion of race and ethnicity as it reveals through its form and subject matter the cultural anxieties related to the construction of Englishness in the contemporary imagination. Reference List - (Victoria University Library database - American Studies in Review. ''A knowledge so deep it's like a secret'' Recent Approaches to Race, Identity and Transformation in Toni Morrison's Fiction.)- (The unit Linda Krumholz 'Blackness and Art in Toni Morrison's Tar baby)- ( Victoria University Library Database – Nick Bentley 'Re – writing Englishness imagining the nation in England, England and Zadie Smith's White Teeth' by Julian Barnes.)- ( database Victoria University Library-