Walter Mosley Novels by Roger A. Berger stating that “Mason argues that Easy Rawlins discovers the inadequacy of assumed cultural knowledge, especially about race and sexuality, in the construction of the self in a racist and sexist society, and thus joins the other black protagonists” (282). The ideology of power and the power of ideology are essentially the same thing. From the black man's point of view, ideology allows a person to define the subject of himself, the material world as well as the relationship of all these elements to each other. What is good, what is right, what is beautiful and what is wrong plays a huge role in determining our ideology too. There is an ideology within and through the symbol system that gives it meaning. It is the individual meaning of our particular beliefs that helps us to refer to particular topics that we can discuss to formulate our opinion through our different experiences in