Here I try to ponders on how hegemonic white culture instilled inferiority complex among black people by referring to Tony Morrison's Bluest eyes.

1. Racism and Inferiority
Complex
Paper no-11 The Post-Colonial Literature
Sem-3
Roll no.19
Enrollment no- 2069108420190020
Batch: 2018-20
Emai: italiyaminkal@gmail.com
S.B.Gradi Department of English
MKBU
Name: Minkal Italiya

2. “Black Skin, White Masks”
(1952)
Martinique and France in
early 1950s
Psychology of racism
White hatred against black
Self, Psyche and Colonial
condition
Inferiority complex

3. What “man” wants and what
“the black wants”
1. The Black Man and Language
2. The Woman of Colour and the
White Man
3. The Man of Colour and the White
Woman
4. The So-Called Dependency
Complex of the Colonized
5. The Lived Experience of the Black
Man
6. The Black Man and
Psychopathology
7. The Black Man and Recognition

4. Stereotypes towards Black skin
The colour black being seen
as evil,bad,dark and dirty
Black men are seen as being
way less moral
Or as little better than
animal
Used as scapegoats by
white people

5. “The Bluest Eye”(1970)
Feeling of racism
among African-
American people
Lorain, Ohio in
1941
Great depression
Inferiority
complex

6.  As Frantz Fanon pointed out from old Spanish play by
Andres de Claramonte that the feeling of inferiority in
the souls of black people comes from white rule, which
forces blacks to live in world where their human worth
is questioned.
 In same way “The Bluest Eyes” mirroring us the terrible
consequences for black, personalizing the values of a
white culture that rejects them both directly and
indirectly.

7. Pauline Breedlove: her love for
white culture
Treated as an objects in the hands of
savage white society
White beauty and the passions are
way of happiness
Feeling more alive – white family
Desires to be like Jean Harlow
White husband- fantasy world

8. What are the results of her obsession
towards White Culture?
Loss of her enriching
essence of mother’s role
Hatred towards Pecola
Started to see herself as
greater than other family
members
Inferiority complex
Isolation
“STOP ACTING
LIKE NIGGER”
(Frant
Fananon’s Black
Skin,White
Masks)
#Shameness

9. Pecola Breedlove – Desire for
Blue Eyes
Sense of ugliness at the age of Eleven
Desire for blue eyes; wants to be
accepted by society
Self suffering- neither accepted by white
society nor by black society
Victim of her parent’s violation
Insulted by white society
Raped by her own father
“You can’t get
out.You’re my
prisoner.
“NASTY
LITTLE
BLACK
BITCH”

10. Cholly Breedlove: Inferiority
complex?
What were the reasons behind raping his
own daughter?
As he was abandoned a junk heap
Humiliated by White Men
Not free to love and be loved
At the end he seems as more sympathetic
character who was humiliated by white society

11. Conclusion
It can be concluded that after being
dominated by the prevalent socio-culture
practises of white hegemonic society,
black people fail to develop a meaningful
understanding of their self.
The metaphor Blue eyes presents
Pecola’s escapism from white world.
O my body,
always make
me a man who
questions!
(Frantz
Fanon)