01-27-2022, 09:27 AM
Wentzville School Board bans acclaimed novel from high school libraries over obscenity complaints | Education | stltoday.com
Quote:“The Bluest Eye” tells the story of a young Black girl growing up during the Great Depression who longs for blue eyes because she feels ugly and oppressed because of her skin color. Morrison, who died in 2019, said she wrote the book in the late 1960s to show the psychological damage caused by racism.