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The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
Pecola, a young Black girl in 1940s Ohio, longs for blue eyes because she believes they will make her loved. Her story exposes the harm inflicted by racist beauty ideals, poverty, sexual violence, and the failures of family and community.
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