This paper aims to read Nella Larsen`s Passing and James Weldon Johnson`s Autobiography of Ex-Coloured Mm in view of power relations propounded in Hegel`s master-slave relationship. The main issue h s paper recognises regarding Hegel`s idea is that people are seeking recognition from others and this involves power relations. Hegel illustrates the power relations with his well-know master-slave model where it can lead to a cultural element. A socio-cultural attitude regarding black people presumably triggered the novels in question. This is where hs paper discovers a sense of power-relations lurking in the novels. They show the characters` reshaping self-identity and faking their identity which American culture has given birth to over its history in relation to the racial differences. It defines a black person as anyone with any "discernible" amount of "colored" or "African" blood. The novels dramatise people who look undiscernibly black and their struggle to get a recognition on their fabricated identity and the power relations revolve on the strife for the recognition. Hegelian idea of slave-bondsman relation is interpretably implemented in h s paper to offer the power relations in the synthetic movement which is a more general, trans-racial sense of American identity that might be constructed in moving toward social and cultural equality.