Intra-racial Conflict in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

Abstract

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.