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I used mostly Hunter Libraries OneSearch and JSTOR to find these articles. I searched through multiple databases JSTOR was the one that was really giving me a lot of results for the terms that I was searching for. I specifically searched for articles that had the terms “the bluest eye” and “the imitation of life” together so I could find more people that talk about that reference that is mentioned in Werrlein’s article. I also replaced that reference to other pop culture references in bluest eye like “Shirley Temple” and for more broader articles I simply replaced those specific terms with “children”, “media”, “racism”, and “imagery” (all of these going along with “the bluest eye”). In my research I found many people talk about “the clark doll study” so I also independently searched that with “representation” and tried to find more articles that linked this to the Bluest Eye. I think in the end I chose the articles I thought fit the most with my research topic of the effect of white narratives and representation in media on black children and how that message is portrayed in The Bluest Eye.

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