'Black and 'cause I'm black I'm blue': Transverse racial geographies in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

Gender, Place and Culture

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 125-142

  Mckittrick, Katherine ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RACIAL IDENTITY; RACISM;

EID: 0034121718     PISSN: 0966369X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713668872     Document Type: Article

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