Beauty Matters, Race Matters: Issues of Beauty in the African-American Family in The Bluest Eye and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Ana Carolina Campos de Carvalho

doi:10.17851/1982-0739.11..21-25

Beauty Matters, Race Matters

Issues of Beauty in the African-American Family in The Bluest Eye and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Autores/as

Ana Carolina Campos de Carvalho UFMG

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-0739.11..21-25

Palabras clave:

Beauty Standards, African-american, Family, Double-consciousness

Resumen

This essay studies Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and MayaAngelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and the stories ofblack girls relating their color to the beauty standards set bywhite America. It shows the role families play on these girls’reaction to these standards.

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Publicado

2007-12-31

Número

Vol. 11 (2007)

Sección

Em Tese

Cómo citar

CARVALHO, Ana Carolina Campos de. Beauty Matters, Race Matters: Issues of Beauty in the African-American Family in The Bluest Eye and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Em Tese, Belo Horizonte, v. 11, p. 21–25, 2007. DOI: 10.17851/1982-0739.11.21-25. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/emt/article/view/32275. Acesso em: 14 jan. 2026.