Morrison discusses the process of Othering, She speaks namely about the development of that mindset. In Chapter 1 "Romancing Slavery" Morrison writes about her first experience with being made an "Other". She recalls sitting on the floor of her house and being labeled as "tampered with" by a power figure within her family's hierarchy. This being because both her and her sister had lightskin and they were being called impure. Through analysis of the text it becomes clear that Othering is a declaration of illegitimacy of someone based off of a quality labeled as different by a group or society.In Morrison's case her light complexion marked her as not complete or lesser than within the black community. She acknowledges that the idea
