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This essay explores how Toni Morrison’s 2012 novel Home engages with racial problems rampant in American society in the 1950s through her novelistic representations of spaces. The argument is that Morrison attests to the possibility for African Americans to establish their own space as well as their independent life. With a particular focus on Morrison’s configurations of urban spaces in the 1950’s, this essay illustrates the way in which this historically specific black experience—lived and embodied—is indissociable from the history of violence and systematic discrimination. This paper examines social problems, racial discrimination and housing policy, against African Americans through their experience within the U.S. society. Focusing on the journey of a young war veteran Frank Money throughout big cities, it becomes manifest that Black Americans are aware of racial discrimination and realize their social status through spaces, especially where they are located separately due to their race. Also, it is revealed that living space, home has been considered as a site to reveal their precariousness. At the end, however, the novel offers the possibility of hope that Black Americans gain subjectivity in black space as showing Frank and Cee recreate their home.