“The Bluest Eye,” Toni Morrison’s 1970 look at the aftermath of slavery (and by proxy, colorism) and gendered disregard on an impoverished, 1940s Midwest, is hard for White Americans to digest. It was ...

Books & the Arts / Toni Morrison’s debut novel might be her most misunderstood. Namwali Serpell This essay is adapted from On ...

After months of absence from the Pinellas County district library in Florida, Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” is back on shelves and available for checkout for 9th through 12th graders. It seems like ...

Bowing to Tea Party pressure, Alabama State Senator Bill Holtzclaw said this week that he thinks The Bluest Eye, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's novel about a little black girl who wishes ...

Ja'Tovia Gary, Quiet As It's Kept (2023), film, 26 minutes, stereo sound, HD and SD video footage, color, 16:9 aspect ratio. Directed, edited, produced, animated by Ja'Tovia Gary (all photos courtesy ...

We have seen family dramas by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams on the Guthrie Theater's thrust stage, but rarely has that august venue presented a story like "The Bluest Eye," about three black ...

The voices of iconic Black artists like Beyoncé, Jill Scott, and Janelle Monáe reverberating through the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts make it clear that “The Bluest Eye” will ...

Three young Black girls in 1940s Ohio strive to make sense of love, sisterhood, abuse and hate. A Noise Within opens its 2023-24 "Balancing Act" season with The Bluest Eye, adapted for the stage by ...

Toni Morrison’s debut novel, The Bluest Eye, examines what happens when a young girl internalizes the external forces of racism. It tells the tale of 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove. The young black girl ...

Toni Morrison — the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature — was the author of 11 novels. Her first was “The Bluest Eye,” published in 1970. Morrison died at the age of 88 ...