Kara Walker is an African American female artist who creates artworks that features the slavery society of antebellum America using dark shapes juxtaposed on white background. The artworks she created features racial tensions between whites and blacks to show how easily atrocities can be committed during that period. She said that when she creates artworks, she wants to “be the heroine and kill the heroine at the same time”. This sentence shows the contradictory reality before the civil war. While upper class white people enjoyed the privileged status and the lives of “ladies” and “gentlemen” as portrayed in Gone with the Wind, which conveys an nostalgia towards antebellum America, it is actually based on the atrocity of enslaving and exploiting black people. Kara Walker’s works put the two scenarios together to point out the fact that people doesn’t know what they seem to know about certain parts of history since multiple factors are not usually put together for consideration. Walker earned her fame very early. However, she was criticized by many older black artists of the same period for strengthening the white stereotypes of antebellum America. Since her artworks appear to be vague in essence, it requires people’s own interpretation in order to understand what it is about and may give rise to certain stereotypes. Regardless of different perspectives, one cannot ignore the “contradictory” world depicted by Kara Walker and the historical view she tries to convey.