“On Being Black…” is an autobiographical essay that talks about the black working class and how black women can “have it all” they must have a career, a house and a husband. But when Bonner refers to younger generations, he finds fault with working-class expectations of becoming upper-middle class. The Young Black generation challenges the ideology of what it means to “have it all,” dismantling institutional racism to create their own ideological racial uprising. In both works, she questions racial categorization and class divisions among African Americans, a recurring theme in her later.