The novel The Bluest Eye deals with the colour problem in America. Discuss.
including in India. In America black skin colour is associated with thick lips and kink: hair and ugliness whereas the white complexion goes with straighter hair and blue eyes and good looks. This conventional white notion of beauty is reaffirmed b!, Knight Dunlap a Professor at the prestigious John Hopkins University at Baltimore:
The type which is highest in value tends to approximate the European type. wherever the European type becomes known. All dark races prefer white skin
The broad flat nose and the thick wide lips are often repulsive because they suggest the African, of for no other reason. But I suspect that the thick lips arc also a defect because they are in themselves a hindrance to efficient speech