Thoughts on The Bluest Eye

I'll admit it: I have not gotten far at all in this book. I don't even have it with me.

However, I do recall the very curious introduction "See the house. The house is green...." While I'm not positive, I think that is the text of one of the earliest children's books. Of course, in that time, the subject of almost any kind of "mainstream" literature was white.

Now again, I will admit that I have gotten practically nowhere in the book, but I know it involves a young black girl in Hard Times, USA that wishes to be white. Perhaps she obsesses on this passage because it is so typical of white suburban life.