The Bluest Eye: Racial Stereotypes

Even though the Jim Crow Era was sixty-two years ago, it is still prevalent in today’s society in many different forms. For example, Pecola’s perspective, in The Bluest Eye, on racial beauty is internalized racism and this is still common in the Black community, due to the 2010 “Doll Test.” In which “researchers asked the younger children a series of questions and had them answer by pointing to one of five cartoon pictures that varied in skin color from light to dark” (Billente and Hadad). The experiment revealed White children had a higher rate of ‘white bias,’ “identifying the color of their own skin with positive attributes and darker skin with negative attributes,” when compared to Black children (Billente and Hadad). Although, Black children, as a whole, had some ‘white bias.’ Researchers linked the data to the children being exposed to stereotypes, as one states “‘What's really significant here is that white children are learning or maintaining those stereotypes much more strongly than the African-American children. Therefore, the white youngsters are even more stereotypic in their responses concerning attitudes, beliefs and attitudes and preferences than the African-American children’” (Billente and Hadad). …show more content…
Beyonce is an enormous celebrity that has much influence on today’s generation and society. Beyonce recently released a music video for her new song “Formation.” Throughout the music video, Beyonce is sitting on a sinking police car, a little boy is dancing in front of a line of police officers, and “stop shooting us” is spray painted onto a wall. These have been interpreted as symbolizing racism and police brutality, which has been current in the past years. Although the Jim Crow Era was many years ago, racism is still present and many artists use their own artform to convey their perceptions on the