d society, the narrator in Bone Black never tells us the name of town or state in which she lives. She also fails to tell us the names of those with whom she interacts, even her brother and sisters. Such namelessness is a symbol of how the black body is often invisible and without identity in mainstream culture.
By describing her childhood experience living in the racist south, the narrator in Bone Black makes us see how often the identity of African Americans is muted or becomes invisible in comparison to mainstream norms, attitudes and images. In one experience, she describes being a ôproblem childö to her parents, because she does not want a white Barbie doll like all children typically receives.
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