Burcar, Lilijana. “Imploding the Racialized and Patriarchal Beauty Myth through the Critical Lens of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” Vestnik za tuje jezike 9.1 (2017): 139–158. Web.

The article brings up the racialized beauty norms from gender to race.It brings into light the societal norms and rules and how this affects people.

Bump, Jerome. “Racism and Appearance in The Bluest Eye: A Template for an Ethical Emotive Criticism.” College Literature, vol. 37, no. 2, 2010, pp. 147–170. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20749587. Accessed 11 Nov. 2020.

This article goes into further detail about the structures of racism and its effects. How appearance affects racism and how we can apply this to real-life scenarios.

Koch, E. “Hollywood’s Terror Industry: Idealized Beauty and The Bluest Eye.” Sanglap : journal of literary and cultural inquiry 1.1 (2014): 147–. Print.

This article goes into a lot of detail about the perception of social standards for beauty and Hollywood. It focuses on the 1940s American white cultural hegemony from Morrison’s characters: Claudia, Pauline, and Pecola.

Muhi, Ridha. “The Quest for an Ideal Beauty in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” مجلة كلية التربية للبنات 21.2 (2019): n. pag. Print.

The article talks about racialized beauty and its effects on black youth. How the construction of femininity in a racialized structure affects women when the standard of beauty is white.

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