The Bluest Eye
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What’s it about?
In 1940s Ohio, a young Black girl believes that having blue eyes will make her loved, as Toni Morrison dissects the cultural machinery of beauty and self-hatred.
You’ll learn
- How beauty standards become a form of violence
- The cycle of trauma across generations
- The cost of internalized racism on a child
- Why empathy requires seeing the full humanity of others