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This paper considers how Morrison explores black identities in her novel, Song of Solomon. What this essay discovers is that Morrison attempts to convey in the novel a black identity in such a way that the identity is shaped by different layers of history and community (places). These layers are related to their particular ways of existence translated to America through what is called diaspora; a swiftly forced move to the New World where they were required to build upon a new identity. Characters in the novel get involved in their personal search for individual identities in various ways which the author sets up with her sense of what she perceives a black identity in the World. What ensues is two distinctive views about the black identity. This essay examines the idea of separatism and essentialism in order to propose that the black identity is rather a segmented whole embracing different experiences and histories the black people in America have gone through.