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

It has a certain aftertaste: somewhere, deep down, lies aversion. She has guessed it lurking in the eyes of all white people. That’s. The aversion must be towards her, towards her blackness. Everything in it is fluid and expectant. Except for its blackness, which is frighteningly static. And it is the blackness that counts, what creates that emptiness with aftertaste to aversion in the eyes of whites. (page 64)
This self-destructive effect is echoed in some members of the same racial group, establishing an interior distinction where there are “negritos” belonging not only to the same racial group, but to the poorest and most unprotected, and another group of “people of color” who It stands impetuously above its racial resemblances, but of those who are distinguished by the economic condition and the privileges it offers them. Blacks employing blacks, for the pleasure that this causes them; feel less black Palliative to mitigate their hidden self-hatred.
When a human being has a power he uses it, he uses it to show the other that he has it. What are the conditions that Pecola meets to be a victim of the events that destroy the time of his childhood? Does she have an awareness of what happens to her as a victim of her blackness in a society in which that “quality” determines certain degrees of permitted aggression? Or is it just a ship in the wreck in the middle of that sea in darkness?
The appearance of some significant elements in the life of Pecola determine their growing desire to have “Blue Eyes”, like those of the dolls that give black girls every Christmas, as absurd as the pretension of adults to suggest to their little daughters the role of mothers of some supposed dolls of another color; white Those who refused “that” Game as one of Pecola’s crumbs, destroyed the object that was alien to them. Others found their greatest pretense in him. Then a toy appears as a product of racial distinction, there were no black dolls for black girls, a contrasting element, interpreted in terms of the condition of the blacks as a denial of their existence by those who produced these elements. It was that way of exercising one kind of power before the other, of eliminating it, in the impossibility of including it in a society whose referents limited a single world; the world of whites.