Word Quilt; and continues to create books currently. Most of her books deals with helping children know that they have open opportunities to be whoever they want to be and explore places where freedom is. Ringgold also is a dominant voice for the African-American people and wants to expand America’s knowledge about them. Some works I will be discussing from Ringgold’s collection are Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemima, The Tar Beach, The French Collection, and Shades of Alice. Her most famous narrative quilt is Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemima? It was the first story quilt she made. It describes a fiction about herself, particularly about her body. She has often noted her own identification with Aunt Jemima as a figure of power and economic success. She made that quilt after her sister Barbara’s and mother’s death. Aunt Jemima to …show more content…
She changes that racial stereotype of Aunt Jemima as a mammy into a successful African-American business woman, who has dignity and ambition. The other interesting medium in the piece is her sharpie writing. The words, “a quilt and a book, by Faith Ringgold;” identifies her quilt as literature and a visual art piece. At first