I found this difficult to listen to. I know this was filmed three years ago but I feel the group could have put their thoughts together before filming and tried not to use words such as 'Like'. While I didn't disagree with anything said here, I feel the overviews here were not well thought through and too disjointed to listen to with enoyment. Claudia and Freida MacTeer do NOT have a supportive family; I believe this is one of the main points of TM view. They are poor, housed, fed...but they are woefully neglected and the victims (as Pecola is) of parents who themselves have been scarred by the Jim Crowe era. All of the characters are complex and I believe the point of the book was to show the ways in which lower and middle-class black families were affected by segregation, the social holdovers of slavery, and how they learn to cope in a world of white supremacy which was so heinous that many of the characters take on self-hate in order to cope. While Jimmy's actions may have been unforgivable he is still painted as a sympathetic character. He did not begin life as a child-molesting drunkard but as a hopeful boy whose first loving encounter with a girl is reduced to helpless violence at gunpoint by whites and whose father whom, he seeks out, traumatizes him by not seeing him as a real person...and so on.
With respect I have to say the fact that Mrs Pauline Breedlove was referred to as Polly hurt my soul. That was the name of oppression for Mrs Breedlove. I asked that you all examine why calling her Polly was acceptable. I'm a Mexican Puerto Rican second generation American and I feel that it was a serious lack of respect for the character, for Ms Toni Morrison, for black women, and for brown women to casually use that name.
What is the real source of claudia’s hatred of Shirley Temple, and by extension, all little white girls? What has this to do with her feelings toward Maureen Peel? JUST SUBSCRIBED TO YOUR CHANEL BTW
I didn’t think the time frame this book is set in (when the girls are young, as in the beginning of the book) was the 1950s not the 30-40s. I am of mixed race, grew up in the South during the 50s attending segregated schools and passed for white. It’s interesting to hear young people, like yourselves, speak of this book and it’s subject content. Thank you for expressing your thoughts.
I found this difficult to listen to. I know this was filmed three years ago but I feel the group could have put their thoughts together before filming and tried not to use words such as 'Like'.
While I didn't disagree with anything said here, I feel the overviews here were not well thought through and too disjointed to listen to with enoyment.
Claudia and Freida MacTeer do NOT have a supportive family; I believe this is one of the main points of TM view. They are poor, housed, fed...but they are woefully neglected and the victims (as Pecola is) of parents who themselves have been scarred by the Jim Crowe era. All of the characters are complex and I believe the point of the book was to show the ways in which lower and middle-class black families were affected by segregation, the social holdovers of slavery, and how they learn to cope in a world of white supremacy which was so heinous that many of the characters take on self-hate in order to cope.
While Jimmy's actions may have been unforgivable he is still painted as a sympathetic character. He did not begin life as a child-molesting drunkard but as a hopeful boy whose first loving encounter with a girl is reduced to helpless violence at gunpoint by whites and whose father whom, he seeks out, traumatizes him by not seeing him as a real person...and so on.
With respect I have to say the fact that Mrs Pauline Breedlove was referred to as Polly hurt my soul. That was the name of oppression for Mrs Breedlove. I asked that you all examine why calling her Polly was acceptable. I'm a Mexican Puerto Rican second generation American and I feel that it was a serious lack of respect for the character, for Ms Toni Morrison, for black women, and for brown women to casually use that name.
What is the real source of claudia’s hatred of Shirley Temple, and by extension, all little white girls? What has this to do with her feelings toward Maureen Peel? JUST SUBSCRIBED TO YOUR CHANEL BTW
I really enjoyed your review of The Bluest Eye. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I didn’t think the time frame this book is set in (when the girls are young, as in the beginning of the book) was the 1950s not the 30-40s. I am of mixed race, grew up in the South during the 50s attending segregated schools and passed for white. It’s interesting to hear young people, like yourselves, speak of this book and it’s subject content. Thank you for expressing your thoughts.