Book Discussion via Zoom
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
THURSDAYS
April 4 and 11, 2024
6:30-8pm ET (via Zoom)
The Bluest Eye is Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison’s acclaimed first novel. It focuses on the young life of Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children leads her to pray for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This book is a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace. We will cover the first half of the book in session 1 and the second half in session 2.
This discussion will be facilitated by Ms. Courtney Williams, MA, MPH, and doctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at Louisiana State University, Dr. Mary Frances Stuck, professor emerita in Sociology at SUNY Oswego, and Rev. Gary Smith, director of the Center for Racial Justice and Racial Justice Consultant for the UCC-NY Conference. If you would like to make a donation to support the work of the Center for Racial Justice follow the PayPal link below to make your donation.