What is the significance of incestuous rape in both the Invisible Man and The Bluest Eye?

How is racism defined or created within the narrated experiences of invisibility and hypervisibility in Citizen and why would Rankine deem it important to write in second person?

How are perceptions of beauty and ugliness defined through a capitalist framework in The Bluest Eye? How do these perceptions manifest within the characters in order to continuously uphold themselves?

How does Toni Morrison’s portrayal of sex workers in The Bluest Eye speak to general attitudes about sex work during the time in which the book took place? What kind of divide existed between treatment of white and African American prostitutes at the time? How might this differ from Toni Morrison’s own attitudes about sex work, and what message might she have been trying to convey with her inclusion of China, Poland and Miss Marie in The Bluest Eye?

How do characters such as Maureen Peal and Geraldine stand as examples of “model minorities” in The Bluest Eye, and what does Morrison aim to accomplish through their portrayal? Despite their “ideal” status, are they truly happier or better off than lower-class characters such as Claudia and Frieda?