The research will focus on, in the The Bluest Eye, the themes of the white standard of beauty, rejection, and the skin tone hierarchy. ... Toni Morrison wrote this novel in 1970, when racial tensions were high and the model of white beauty was accepted as the norm, but even now in today society we can see that it still applies to our culture. ... The narrator tells us, in the novel's only concrete description of Pecola's facial features, that "her teeth are good, and at least her nose is not big and flat like some of those who were thought so cute-(Morrison 40) And then we see o...

• Word Count: 2499
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography

Colored families faced an unemployment rate that was much higher than whites, which caused many to be forced into poverty stricken homes and to settle in small towns where there were less whites and hopefully more jobs. The colored families were met with passive aggressive racism in these towns, but were often given jobs, and the towns like Maycomb from To Kill a Mockingbird soon settled into an easy soft spoken racist mindset. This novel by Harper Lee covers and goes into depth about the racism in a little town called Maycomb in Alabama; narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, or Sc...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(resist.com) His comments on the United States have a very racist tone. ... (whiteracist.com) His view is that all cities and towns should be white run and that all businesses should be white owned. ... "We always stress the inportance of our POWs. ... These racist movements are poisoning our society and sucking up our children. ...

• Word Count: 1468
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School