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This study aims at analyzing the process on how main characters in Jazz form their own relational self in their African American community. Morrison approaches African Americans’ lives on more complicated terms than on these two opposed attitudes. Although main characters including True Belle, Violet, and Alice Manfred have suffered from racial estrangement based on the oppressive past in their black community, they have kept their cultural roots connected to African history and tradition. Particularly these female characters have acted their traditional roles as tar quality which black women historically have served. As they solve hatred, contempt, and pity through warming sisterhoods with which female characters share, their roles are beyond the privileged racial ideologies. Namely, as their sisterhoods is formed by their complicated human relationship in African American community, it has the meaning of their relational self, which is connected to the double consciousness due to their particular human conditions. Accordingly, her double consciousness is associated with the complicated relational self which contains the unforseen interconnectedness.