FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, MAY 2007 Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye (Vintage International) Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Biju, Vidhiya. “Social Barriers Revealed out in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” Shanlax International Journal of English, vol. 6, no. S1, 2018, pp. 46–50.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1421133

• This is journal article about discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity, race, religion or social status are some of the social barriers. This journal article also exposes the social barriers which lead to the marginalization of the blacks in the white social order in The Bluest Eye. Through the article main focus on social barriers and its effects on the lives of the African Americans. Also, giving example of Pecola suffers and is doomed because she belongs to a black community, a marginalized group.

Zebialowicz, A., Palasinski, M. Probing Racial Dilemmas in the Bluest Eye with the Spyglass of Psychology. J Afr Am St 14, 220–233 (2010).

https://doi-org.proxy.wexler.hunter.cuny.edu/10.1007/s12111-009-9100-y

• The purpose of this article is to help rekindle interest in psychology as a tool to explain the racial dilemmas of Toni Morrison’s female characters in The Bluest Eye. Rather than questioning established analytical methods, it illustrates how modern human thinking science provides valuable insights, especially in verifying the behavior and thinking of these characters.

Hassan Khan, Rahman. “The Framework of Racism in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye: A Psychosocial Interpretation.” Advances in language and literary studies 5.2 (2014): 25–28. Web.

• This article includes victims of Toni Morrison’s racist ideology and racial abuse. The article also traces the abusive attitude of the characters in the inner racist framework in The Bluest Eye of African Americans.

Griffin, Farah. “On The Ethical Dimensions of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” College literature 47.4 (2020): 671–677. Web.

• This article includes not only about race and racism but also focus on that novel’s portrayal of the devastating consequences of internalized white supremacy on its protagonist, Pecola. It also discusses the behavior of hateful middle-class neighbors, poverty, and parental neglect that contribute to the destruction of children.

Krupa, N. Dyva. “RACISM AND RELIGION IN TONI MORRISON’S THE BLUEST EYE.” VEDA’S JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (JOELL) An International Peer Reviewed Journal, 20 Jan. 2015, joell.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/racism-and-religion.pdf.

• This paper article explores the relationship among the chief components of race and religion within the fictional narratives of African American women writer, the novel of Toni Morrison in her first novel The Bluest Eye. This paper article also examines the nature of the blacks’ struggle for their intellectual (race) and spiritual (religion) endurance in a predominantly multicultural post-colonial white America.

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