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For my research, I relied primarily on the JSTOR database that I accessed through the Hunter College Library because I found it had the most diverse information available When searching on Project Muse, Gale Literature, and others I found significantly fewer resources, most of which. I had already encountered on JSTOR. I began by searching “Bluest Eye” AND Beauty to narrow my search by the term beauty and access general articles about beauty in the novel. I then added Class to my search term to access articles that related beauty with money. I also found articles about whiteness and beauty which explain societal beauty standards in a broad way to validate the concept. I then narrowed my search further to include Maureen Peal who is the example in The Bluest Eye of a light-skinned, rich, black girl who experienced differences in the beauty standards imposed on her versus Claudia, Pecola, and Pauline. Finally, I used the novel itself as a source to give in text citations of the emotions experienced by the women in this novel to give me a stepping ground to begin analyzing.

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