First was the struggle with appearance. There was a “historic widespread disparagement of dark skin, tightly curled hair, and African American …show more content…
Most, if not all black women were maids in their home and someone of the white society. Women were supposed to be submissive to their husbands. A servant to him and the house. In “The Bluest Eye”, Morrison uses good illustration of this quote. Claudia and Freida’s mother was portrayed as such. She was always cleaning the house and taking care of her children or tending to what needed to be done. It’s as if black woman were good for nothing but being a servant. In addition to another example, at the beginning of a chapter in Morrison’s book, she writes “Mrs. Williams got a job cleaning and cooking for a white minister on the other side of town…” (112), which further proves what Craig talks about and proves that “mammy” image. The “mammy” look, according to Craig, was “[Black women as a] domestic servant … a fat, dark – skinned woman wearing a head wrap”