In The Bluest Eye, racism played a big role. In the book, white people were seen as the superior race. There were many examples, and one example was Claudia’s doll. She had a white girl doll that had yellow hair, blue eyes, pearly teeth and red bowline lips. “Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs-all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow haired, pink skinned doll was what every girl child treasured” (Morrison 20). Claudia continues to caress the doll, wondering why
Joseph Romo Dr. Rudy ENGL 105 12 October 2015 Beauty and Racism in The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye tells a story about the feelings of black self-hatred as a result of the equality that society has created between racism and beauty. Throughout the novel, the main African-American characters show that they have been internally worn out by American societal notion that “whiteness is beauty”, and struggle to accept the socially defined definition of beauty and in the case of Pecola