If Multi-Ethnic literature is meant to give voice to people previously without voice, why does it still have the stereotypes about voiceless...

In " href="http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/3499/prmID/1831">Boat
People," written by Felix Morisseau-Leroy and read aloud by Edwidge Danticat
at the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature in 2009, the stereotypes
are included in the poem as a protest against their
existence:

One
day we’ll stand up, put down our feet
As we did at St.
Domingue
They’ll know who these boat people really
are
[...]
They will know us
We who simply call
ourselves
People

Part
of the theory behind exposing stereotypes is that in so exposing them, they are disarmed
and rendered valueless and harmless. Exposing stereotypes in multi-ethnic literature,
intended to give voice to the previously voiceless, opens the doors for redefining rigid
notions of race and pays homage to struggles of pride and the quest for racial identity.
The ultimate objective is to overcome the imposed role of being outcast and develop a
place of triumphant belonging.

Some may argue that this approach may
be counterproductive as the stereotypes become more deeply visualized and--perhaps
inadvertently--embraced by the "oppressor" class. The counter to this argument might be
that even if this effect of deepening that for which riddance is sought truly occurs,
there is such pain and anger that such must be expressed by sterile realism, and the
stereotypes are an unequivocal part of that realism.