Internalized Racism is a self-oppressive attitude that assures the continuity of race among the racialized stratum of people, or in Kira Hudson Banks’s and Jadah Stephens’ terms, “Internalized racial oppression the ways in which a member of a target group is in relationship with the dominant group’s ideology and the extent to which they accept their subordinate status as deserved, natural, and inevitable” (93). One of these psychological issues is ‘Internalized Racism’. Drawing on the psychoanalysis of the French scholars of the 60s and 70s of the previous century, Toni Morrison has obtained a timely possibility to cleverly depict what is taking place inside the psyche of each character. This period of time is characterized by the “Female Phase’’ which paved the way for the emphasis on the women’s psychology, their experiences and characteristics (Peter Barry 118). Toni Morison in her debut novel tackles racism in the context of 1940s just after the WW II. Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, as a case in point, orbits around the theme of race in a thorough manner to the extent that it brings the reader closer to the inner psyche of the discriminated characters namely Pecola (the main character) and Cholly (the main character’s father). Race has been for a long time a problematic issue almost present at a large scale in everyday life, and since it has been an inevitable issue faced mostly by ‘black’ people, it has moved to touch different literary forms such as the novel.

Internalized Racism: Longing for Whiteness (in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye) Introduction

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