Racism In The Bluest Eye And Home

Toni Morrison in Operation: Spread the Effect of Racism Racism has been an ongoing issue in America since the 1600’s. While it continues to exist, the incidence and severity of oppressive racist behavior has been significantly reduced and continues to do so. There are many books, articles, TV shows, songs, and activist groups that highlight the damaging effects of racism; they emphasize how seemingly privileged the white majority have mistreated their fellow African-American countrymen. In two pieces that portray racism, The Bluest Eye and Home, writer Toni Morrison shows how the struggles of character’s past events, society’s standards and racial discrimination negatively influence the African-American community. Morrison does this in order

Followed by her Bachelor’s degree at Howard University, Morrison completed her master’s degree, also from Howard University, and began her teaching career at Texas Southern University. After 6 years of a troubled marriage, her husband left her, and she took the responsibility of raising her children. The added demands on her time and energy, did not detract her from her love for writing. She took time to write while working as an editor at the Random House. The Bluest Eye was her first novel and did not receive immediate recognition but was eventually awarded a nobel peace prize. Throughout her life she encountered difficult obstacles due to her race and she made parallels to it in her novels. Morrison had many themes and strands based on racism, that contributed to her success and elevated her status to an influential African American writer.
One major theme Morrison uses consistently across her books is how the past events of characters affect their daily life and consciousness. In The Bluest Eye, the main protagonist, Pecola Breedlove, has parents whose present life was the way it was