Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece´s Incognegro An Analysis

Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece have illustrated an interconnection between race and gender in the graphic novel Incognegro. Johnson argues that, Race doesnt really exist [and] is [nothing] [but] a bunch a rules meant to keep [black] people [at] the bottom (Johnson Pleece 19). One could argue the same thought about gender portrayed in Incognegro. According to World Health Organization, gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women. In other words, gender is a socially constructed category that is used to define a difference between men and women within a society; in the way that race is used to define the difference between whites and blacks. When observing Johnson and Pleeces gender use of women in Incognegro, their tendency to transpose the gender roles of women becomes evident. In the opening pages, a white man seems to be talking to his wife about lynching, Mildred darling, this n ot really a discussion for a lady. But by the time I show up, the man is already long doomed (Johnson and Pleece 8). Johnson is suggesting that women in the south are supposed to be delicate making them incapable to deal with violence. It is also proposes that men are acceptable to withhold information from women indicating that women are supposed to be subordinate to their men the way that blacks are supposed to be subordinate to whites. However, Johnson and Pleece end up losing this