Intra-racial Conflict in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
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This research has tried to explore intra-racial hatred in Toni Morrison's The Bluest
Eye. To study the causes of social disintegration, this research work studies the roots of social
hatred, defining Racism in different forms. Racism is the mistreatment of a group of either
white-coloured or black-coloured individuals in the name of differences in the colour of the
skin. Racism in the era of colonialism worked on the level of physical threat but took a
different shape in the nineteenth century. The topic 'Racism and Hegemony' is an attempt to
study how blacks intermediated between themselves and white to make 'white man's burden'
a successful story. In this process they internalized the white values. "Racism and Mimicry'
shows the manifestation of those internalized values in their own practice. The Bluest Eye is
trying to bring the impacts of these manifestations because of the conflicts within the blacks.
The conflict among blacks begins due to the obsessive hankering after the white way of
living and finally ends at the social and familial fragmentation among the blacks.