“They lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed there because they believed they were ugly… their poverty was traditional and stultifying” (38).
By this excerpt, one can understand that Morrison is inferring that being an African American can strongly determine one’s political stance and even lead to affecting one’s own personal thoughts of oneself. In The Bluest Eye, the concept of human equality does not exist; hence in the novel The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison demonstrates that there are racial tensions not just in a black society, but in American culture in general. Due to the oppressive economic limitations as well as the image of beauty perpetrated by both African Americans and whites, racism serves as the most destructive force in the lives of African American adolescents.
In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, racism and sexism are both threatening to the growth of African American youth females due to society’s principles of sexism and society’s control of racism; society distills an inadequate complex upon them. Through the point of view of Geraldine, Morrison shows that she believes that she must resist laughing too …show more content…
“The Breedloves... nestled together in the storefront... making no stir in the neighborhood, no sound in the labor force, and no wave in the mayor's office. Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality—collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. The Breedloves are obstructed and deflected from higher conciousness of themselves due to being devalued in American culture: “The Breedloves did not live in a storefront because they were having temporary difficulty adjusting to the cutbacks at
By this excerpt, one can understand that Morrison is inferring that being an African American can strongly determine one’s political stance and even lead to affecting one’s own personal thoughts of oneself. In The Bluest Eye, the concept of human equality does not exist; hence in the novel The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison demonstrates that there are racial tensions not just in a black society, but in American culture in general. Due to the oppressive economic limitations as well as the image of beauty perpetrated by both African Americans and whites, racism serves as the most destructive force in the lives of African American adolescents.
In Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, racism and sexism are both threatening to the growth of African American youth females due to society’s principles of sexism and society’s control of racism; society distills an inadequate complex upon them. Through the point of view of Geraldine, Morrison shows that she believes that she must resist laughing too …show more content…
“The Breedloves... nestled together in the storefront... making no stir in the neighborhood, no sound in the labor force, and no wave in the mayor's office. Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality—collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. The Breedloves are obstructed and deflected from higher conciousness of themselves due to being devalued in American culture: “The Breedloves did not live in a storefront because they were having temporary difficulty adjusting to the cutbacks at