Skin Tone
Statistics in the US news & world report by Jeff New show that 73 percent of whites own homes, compared to just 43 percent of blacks. Showing how whites have acheft more in life than blacks. The novel The Bluest Eye by Toni morrison is about a young black girl named pecola breedlove. Pecola wishes that one day she will know how it is to be beautiful, but in reality she will never know because she is the opposite of what she and society views as beautiful, which is white skin and color eyes. In the songs of Kendrick Lamar U, Institutionalized, and Complexion all illustrate the struggles of the black community . The theme within the two texts is how blacks are in lower social class because of how whites value them thus, making the whites superior, another theme is self hatred within the black community. Within both Kendrick Lamar 's songs and The Bluest Eye they show how much media has one of the biggest effect on the beauty standards. The whites have set within the black community. Pecola 's mother, Pauline had gone to the movies while being pregnant so she would not feel lonely and they 're at the movie …show more content…
That wasn 't the case since blacks weren 't in the media much less seen as beauty. Due to this is show blacks having low self-esteem and hatred towards himself which is the thing that is shown throughout The Bluest Eye and Complexion by Kendrick Lamar. The song complexion expresses that although nowadays there are black people on screens and media that doesn 't exactly mean that black still don 't have low self-esteem because of it. The fact that seeing people on the big screen or any media still has a negative on black people simply shows how proves that they are living in a world that is set up for them to have hatred towards themselves for simply being their skin
Statistics in the US news & world report by Jeff New show that 73 percent of whites own homes, compared to just 43 percent of blacks. Showing how whites have acheft more in life than blacks. The novel The Bluest Eye by Toni morrison is about a young black girl named pecola breedlove. Pecola wishes that one day she will know how it is to be beautiful, but in reality she will never know because she is the opposite of what she and society views as beautiful, which is white skin and color eyes. In the songs of Kendrick Lamar U, Institutionalized, and Complexion all illustrate the struggles of the black community . The theme within the two texts is how blacks are in lower social class because of how whites value them thus, making the whites superior, another theme is self hatred within the black community. Within both Kendrick Lamar 's songs and The Bluest Eye they show how much media has one of the biggest effect on the beauty standards. The whites have set within the black community. Pecola 's mother, Pauline had gone to the movies while being pregnant so she would not feel lonely and they 're at the movie …show more content…
That wasn 't the case since blacks weren 't in the media much less seen as beauty. Due to this is show blacks having low self-esteem and hatred towards himself which is the thing that is shown throughout The Bluest Eye and Complexion by Kendrick Lamar. The song complexion expresses that although nowadays there are black people on screens and media that doesn 't exactly mean that black still don 't have low self-esteem because of it. The fact that seeing people on the big screen or any media still has a negative on black people simply shows how proves that they are living in a world that is set up for them to have hatred towards themselves for simply being their skin