Are the Stereotypes Necessary for a Good Book?

In the book The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman the author Ernest Gaines decides to show us what the real story is. Gaines does not go the normal rout in showing all the stereotypical ways of people. Gaines tells it how it was. For example he shows the two sides of each person, white and black. He shows the nice caring side and considerate side but also the rude, inconsiderate side of white people. Gaines also shows the innocent, loving side and then the bad negligent side of black people. Gaines proves that all white people where mean, crude people who just hate black people along with showing the black people are not just innocent or negligent people.