In the novel The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison, the author details the tragic story of a young African American girl named Pecola Breedlove, who is exposed to bias social constructs that results in her internalizing high levels of racist ideologies. The novel illustrates the controversy of the perpetration of Eurocentric beauty standards and how it affects the black community, specifically the children within it. Pecola is surrounded around the notion that white standards are favored within American society. She vividly sees these implementations in aspects such pop culture, the racial hierarchy in education, and societal systematic order.
These bias limitations subconsciously result in detrimental effects on the psyches of the young
These bias limitations subconsciously result in detrimental effects on the psyches of the young