Hinman Abel, Mary. Practical Sanitary and Economic Cooking Adapted to Persons of Moderate and Small Means. American Public Health Organization, 1889, pg.iv, 106.

     Gardaphé, Fred L., and Wenying Xu. “Introduction: Food in Multi-Ethnic Literatures.” MELUS, vol. 32, no. 4, 2007, pp. 5–10. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/30029828.

     Graves, Brian. “You Are What You Beat: Food Metaphors and Southern Black Identity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature and Goodie Mob’s ‘Soul Food.’” Studies in Popular Culture, vol. 38, no. 1, 2015, pp.126. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44259588.

     House, Elizabeth B. “The ‘Sweet Life’ in Toni Morrison’s Fiction.” American Literature, vol. 56, no. 2, 1984, pp. 182. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2925752.

     Kuenz, Jane. “The Bluest Eye: Notes on History, Community, and Black Female Subjectivity.” African American Review, vol. 27, no. 3, 1993, pp. 421–431. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3041932.

I used a combination of JSTOR, Google Scholar, and Hunter College’s Onesearch to find my sources, the latter two often pointed me in the direction of articles from JSTOR. I used the search terms “race,” “black,” “food” and “literature” for the majority of my sources. I used the terms “mary jane candies,” “food,” and “toni morrison” to find relevant existing criticism about my topic. When I was still deciding on my research topic a few weeks ago I went down a rabbit hole trying to research the history of blackberry cobbler (which is a food that appears in TBE). and  found my first source – the cookbook where blackberry cobbler is called a “Brown Betty” for the first time. Though it is an unusual source, the preface and recipe itself sheds light how Morrison uses the dish to say something about blackness, poverty, and class.

Baker, Houston A. “To Move without Moving: An Analysis of Creativity and Commerce in Ralph Ellison’s Trueblood Episode.” PMLA, vol. 98, no. 5, 1983, 828–845. JSTOR,  www.jstor.org/stable/462262.

I found this journal article by searching the terms “Houston Baker Trueblood” on Google Scholar through the Hunter Library Portal. This was the first result. I was nudged in the direction of this source by Professor Allred, who noted this is a classic reading of the Trueblood episode.

Doane, Janice and Devon Hodges. Telling Incest: Narratives of Dangerous Remembering from Stein to Sapphire. The University of Michigan Press, 2001. Print.

I found this book through a journal article that I found on JSTOR entitled “Anatomy of Rape,” which mentioned that this book analyzes both Invisible Man and The Bluest Eye. After only finding reviews of the book by searching its title on JSTOR, I then found a sizeable preview through Google Scholar. I’m not sure yet which page numbers will be relevant, so I will add those to my citation later.

Grogan, Christine. “Morrison Responds to the Psychological Community in The Bluest Eye.”  Father-Daughter Incest in Twentieth-Century American Literature: The Complex Trauma  of the Wound and the Voiceless. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2016. 75-94. EBSCOhost,  search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2016383186&site=ehost-liVe.

I found this book chapter by searching “the bluest eye” in MLA International Bibliography. I limited the publication date to articles from 2000 onward, since the two other sources I had found thus far were from before 2000, so I wanted a good mix of older and more recent sources. MLA International Bibliography showed that Hunter does not own a copy of the book, but linked me to a Google Books preview which contains most of the chapter on The Bluest Eye.

Koopman, Emy. “Incestuous Rape, Abjection, and the Colonization of Psychic Space in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 49, no. 3, July 2013, 303–315. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2013394547&site=ehost-live.

I found this journal article through the same search of “the bluest eye” in MLA International Bibliography, with only results from 2000 to now. The search returned 153 results in total and this source was located on the second page of results.

Zender, Karl F. “Faulkner and the Politics of Incest.” American Literature, vol. 70, no. 4, 1998, 739–765. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2902390.

I found this journal article by searching “doubling and incest” on Google Scholar through the Hunter Library Portal. This was the fourth result. I had originally been searching for J.T. Irwin’s book Doubling and incest/repetition and revenge: A speculative reading of Faulkner, as suggested by Professor Allred. However, Hunter does not have access to a full copy of the book. Zender’s work comments on both Irwin and Faulkner, so it is slightly more recent and could also be useful.

Great essay featured in  The New York Times’s podcast Modern Love this week read by Lorraine Toussaint. The podcast and the link to the actual essay Toussaint reads can be found below.

Race Wasn’t An Issue To Him, Which Was An Issue To Me | With Lorraine Toussaint

Interracial relationships come with their own complexities, and there are a lot of questions that come up. Questions like: How does your partner think about race? How do you talk about it? What works, and what doesn’t? Kim McLarin writes about race and dating in her piece, which is read by Lorraine Toussaint (“The Village”).

Within the Invisible Man themes of identity, and power of race, are prevalent.  It’s demonstrated through struggle with invisibility and hypervisibility, how these effects ones identity.

How has Ellison’s Invisible Man been used by photographers and artists and what does this tell us about the book?