This thesis focuses on the challenging of stereotypes in three of Nobel Prize winning writer, Toni Morrison's works: The Bluest Eye (1970), "Recitatif" (1983) and Tar Baby (1981). The two novels and one short story provide the best possible terrain to scrutinize the structures of discrimination, the occurrence of stereotypes in them being both widespread and diverse. The works are not discussed in their chronological order since the above mentioned order makes clearer a continuance, where stereotypes are constructed in The Bluest Eye, deconstructed in "Recitatif" , and where Tar Baby provides ways for perhaps getting beyond them. The background for the research is provided by the work of cornerstones of African American literary tradi...