Black American families are intertwined by the vestige of slavery that emasculated the black slave, subsequently giving the black woman the position of family leader. Concentrating on Toni Morrison’s Sula and Song of Solomon, this article proposes a re-evaluation of black feminism. The objective is to analyze such families in which the fathering woman’s role is one of the hegemonic. But it appears that despite her sense of sacrifice, she fails to play two roles, that of the mother and the one of the father who is absent. The emotional instability of most characters in the two fictions reads, therefore, as a result of the unstable family circle that presents the image of an open circle. That is how, the discussion suggests moving from the community of women to the construction of black American families where the mother and the father constitute the two pillars of their stability.