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The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
She wants blue eyes. Morrison shows exactly how that happens.
For you if
you want to understand how racism operates inside a child's mind — not as hatred from outside but as self-hatred from within
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Pecola Breedlove is a Black girl in 1940s Ohio who wants blue eyes — who has absorbed so completely the message that white beauty is the only beauty that she prays for a physical transformation that will make her lovable. Morrison's first novel is the most precise account ever written of what racism does to a child's self-conception — not the dramatic violence but the daily erosion, the accumulation of small messages, the way a culture convinces a child she is ugly. The most important novel about internalized racism ever written and the one that most clearly shows how it is manufactured.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- North America
- Voice
- Written by a North America author
- Themes
- After EmpireWitness
