The novel the bluest eye deals with the colour problem in America.

THE BLUEST EYE OF THE WORLD
Living in a world where every moment we meet on the road something that implies establishing a distinction between the beautiful, the adorable, the beautiful, the ugly, and although it is true that the word “beautiful” is generally used to refer to what meets the necessary qualifications for this classification, it is also true that we never appreciate the impact that the use of this type of adjectives can generate in those who gather these qualities or in their absence they lack them.
Examining faces devoid of beauty, imbued with a genetic silence that does not dare to account for their aesthetic whims, convert that ideal into something not only to contemplate, but also, into something that you want to be. Above all, when further away from it. The experience of revealing to oneself what one really is, praying to reach such a radical alteration, but above all, the implicit desire of racial self-hatred, the rejection of that other who looks at you in every appointment in front of the mirror, that image devoid of color, or at least the colors that can mean a glimpse of happiness, generate a hell with which you must live, which does not mean that it is accepted.
The claim of racial beauty in the sixties was a necessary action, the canons established by a white society that determined the aesthetic parameters, had to open its spectrum to include as natural in its bosom the “beautiful” in another color; in black This necessary affirmation of black beauty should not be a reaction only against self-abuse, the humorous criticism of the condition of being black, the racial weaknesses common to all groups, but against the baseless ideas of inferiority linked to an external gaze that reflected in the depths of people of color.
The effect of demonization of an entire race, entrenched in concepts as old as good and evil, linked to such everyday and natural elements as white and black, where the white is intuited as intimately linked to the conception of the good, of the immaculate, and the black, antagonistically understood as punishable, shameful, linked to evil, establishes a tonal stratification where people of color are at the bottom of the value scale.

Bluest eye