Navid Babamiri is an English Professor, in the College of Persian Literature and foreign language, at Islamic Azad University in Tabriz Iran. This article was written and published when Mr.Salehi Babamiri was matriculating through his college career. He has written many articles throughout his life. Some of the articles in which he wrote are entitled “Masculinity/Femininity in Maya Angelou's I know why the Caged Bird Sings, The Sense of Exile and Abandonment in William Trevor’s Novel Felicia Journey, and Masculinity\Femininity in Alice Walker’s Color Purple: A Womanist …show more content…
A teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. This same ideology can be found within Navid Salehi Babamiri article “Deformed Motherhood in the Bluest Eyes, By Toni Morrison.” The Bluest Eye is a novel that discusses the issue of racial discrimination and self-esteem through the lives of Pecola, Pauline, Cholly, Claudia and Ms.Macteer (Claudia’s Mom). Babamiri uses the women in the bluest eye as a form of symbolism for the lack of motherhood in the African American Community. This lack of motherhood results in a poor sense of self among the children in the society, which they carry to adulthood. As a result the people in the African American community lack the ability to fight racial discrimination all because of the lack of “perseverance, nurturance, cultural bearing and healing from the