Research Question: What does Toni Morrison mean, in her novel The Bluest Eye, that the Breedloves put on their ugliness like a garment? Or that ugliness can be adopted or done away with, when she writes: “Except for the father, Cholly, whose ugliness… was behavior, the rest of the family… wore their ugliness, put it on, so to speak, although it did not belong to them (38).”
- Foucault, Michel. “The Subject and Power.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 8, no. 4, 1982, pp. 777–795. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1343197.
I found this article in an odd sort of way in that I thought the idea of forming a “subject” was so vague and yet so specific a topic that Foucault must have written an article about it. I then put into a BING.com search bar “Foucault how do you become a subject” and the name of this article (or rather afterward to a book he had written) was the first result beneath the author’s Wikipedia page. I then went into JSTOR and found that exact article.
- Mahaffey, Paul Douglas. “The Adolescent Complexities of Race, Gender, and Class in Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye.’” Race, Gender & Class, vol. 11, no. 4, 2004, pp. 155–165. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43496824.
I found this article on JSTOR by searching “The Bluest Eye”.
- Burt, Janeula M., Halpin, Glennelle. “African American Identity Development: A Review of the Literature.” Mid-South Educational Research Association. November 1998.
Again, I had found this source in the bibliography of another article I had searched for a separate English class, and when I could not find it in any of the databases we discussed in the library, I searched for the article by typing in the title into the BING.com search bar. I found a link for the entire speech (the reading of a paper the authors had written) that was published in 1998.
- Brittian, Aerika S. “Understanding African American Adolescents’ Identity Development: A Relational Developmental Systems Perspective.” The Journal of black psychology vol. 38,2 (2011): 172-200. doi:10.1177/0095798411414570.
This article was listed in the BING search results of the article above.
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